Escadron de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen Air Base (BA 118). During the rallying of général Charles de Gaulle through the Appeal of 18 June 1940 inviting Frenchmen to join him in London, some went on to Great-Britain in order to continue the fight with the Allies. Great-Britain became the most important « Free French military base and rallying point. Following the rupture of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact by Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, representatives of Vichy were declared as Persona non grata by the Soviet Authorities and were asked to return to France. Colonel Charles Luguet, the air attaché of the Vichy Government in Moscow, changed
Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 of the people. They were all Frenchmen and they were all Parisians and not novices in revolution. On 30 May the department gave its support to the movement. The insurrection started on 31 May and directed by the committee at the "Évêché" (the Bishop's Palace Committee), developed according to the methods already tested on 10 August. At six o'clock in the morning the delegates of the 33 sections, led by Dobsen, presented themselves at "Hôtel de Ville", showed the full powers with which the members had invested them, and suppressed the Commune, whose members had retired to the adjourning room.