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
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong versions of the book in French, one published in Quebec in 2007 with the title "La Grande Aventure de la langue française". In 2011, Jean-Benoît Nadeau completely rewrote and adapted the original English version for a French edition published in Paris, "Le français, quelle histoire!" (Télémaque and Le Livre de Poche). In 2013, the couple also published "The Story of Spanish" (St. Martin's Press), which was inspired by "The Story of French". Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong (Sourcebooks, 2003) is the first book from the writer-journalist team Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau. The