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Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated city population of 2.04 million in an area of , and a metropolitan population of 13.2 million as of . Located on the river Seine in the centre of the Île-de-France region, it is the largest metropolitan area and fourth-most populous city in the European Union (EU). Nicknamed the "City of Light", partly because of its role in the Age of Enlightenment, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy since the 17th century.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A General of the Army, Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. His successful leadership in Operation Torch (1942–1943) and Operation Overlord was pivotal to the Allied victory in World War II.

Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 327,734 in Nantes proper (2023) and a metropolitan area of over 1 million inhabitants (2022). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.

Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the capital of the Dauphiné historical province and lies where the river Drac flows into the Isère at the foot of the French Alps.

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first Head of the Commonwealth following the London Declaration of 1949.

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

King of Morocco (1909-1961)

French jurist (1887-1976)

French Resistance member

French resistance fighter and civil servant (1899-1943)

French politician (1899-1983)

83rd Prime Minister of France (1916-2007)

French general (1902–1947)

French army general, Marshal of France (1889-1952)

Vassieux-en-Vercors (, literally Vassieux in Vercors; ) is a commune in the department of Drôme in southeastern France.

French politician (1901-1993)

Vietnamese emperor (1899-1945)

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French general and politician (1898-1970)

French Prime Minister (1914–1993)

French state order

French historian and anthropologist (1914–2007)

World War II French flying pilot (1921-2006)

French Guiana politician (1884-1944)

French engineer, inventor, administrator, and resistance fighter (1905-1971)

French politician (1911-1998)

French writer, art critic and poet (1897–1986)

French politician (1903-1944)

French general (1908–2002)

French admiral and Discalced Carmelite friar (1889–1964)

member of the French resistance (1908-2002)

French Politician & Diplomat (1904-1995)

one of the 6 regiments of the French Foreign Legion

French diplomat (1901-1984)

French general and politician (1906–1992)

French World War II pilot (1917-2010)

French politician and resistance fighter (1913–2005)

French Resistance fighter (1893–1943)

French general (1884-1975)

French journalist, politician and member of the French Resistance (1900-1969)

French Roman Catholic priest, chaplain and ornithologist (1906-2006)

French general (1879-1945)

French politician (1918-1988)

French resistance member (1901-1941)

French politician (1899–1953)

French intelligence officer (1911–1998)

French military officer and Lieutenant Colonel of the French Foreign Legion (1906–1942)

French politician and resistance fighter (1920–2021)

French general (1889–1982)

French naval officer (1899-1962)

French military personnel (1920-2017)

French politician (1900-1984)

French fighter ace (1920–2012)

French general (1914–2006)

French general (1892–1964)

French flying ace (1893-1985)

French diplomat and the first ambassador of France to the United Nations (1901–1979)

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French archaeologist and resistance fighter (1905-1941)