Reopening the British Embassy following the liberation of Paris
Posted by:
Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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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.