In December 2003, she became aware of a sharp pain on the left side of her rib cage. Weymouth had been taking golf lessons so she could play with her husband and figured she might have pulled a muscle.
Fluctuat nec mergitur is the motto of Paris, France, translated Il est battu par les flots, mais ne sombre pas: She is tossed by the waves but does not sink. This motto is present in the city coat of arms depicting a ship floating on a rough sea.
From the French point of view, the liberation of Paris by the French themselves rather than by the Allies saved France from having a new constitution being imposed by the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), like those established in Germany and Japan in 1945.