Execution squad of Maquis (French Resistance fighters) after firing on 6 members of the Nazi collaborationist Milice (Vichy police) tied to posts as they slump over dead in front of brick factory where 23 patriots were executed by the Germans in July.

Evacuation of the Louvre Art Treasury--The "Raft of the Medusa" of Gericault evacuated from the Louvre in a truck that usually carries stage scenery

[Portrait of Irish author James Joyce]

[The 2nd of 6 members of the Nazi collaborationist Milice (Vichy Police) being tied to a post by a guard moments before being shot to death by a Maquis firing squad, in front of brick factory where 23 patriots were executed by the Germans in July]

The last of 6 members of the Nazi collaborationist Milice (Vichy police) lying dead moments after being shot by a Maquis firing squad, in front of brick factory where 23 patriots were executed by the Germans in July.

[Leon Blum, Maurice Thorez and Andre Marty at Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris]

[International Writers' Congress meeting in front of an image of Maxim Gorki, Paris]

[International Writers' Conference, Paris]