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Reopening the British Embassy following the liberation of Paris

Posted by: Dr Richard Smith, Posted on: 13 September 2019 - Categories: Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Second World War

On 13 September 1944 a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British Ambassador to France, Alfred ‘Duff’ Cooper, with the mission to re-establish a British presence in the newly liberated French capital.