Paris - The mayor of Paris yesterday unveiled a huge Cross of Lorraine - the symbol of Charles de Gaulle's resistance to the Nazi occupation of France during the second World War - amid controversy over his own bid for reelection.
The 22-metre high and nine-metre-wide cross was erected at the Porte Maillot on the capital's western outskirts to commemorate the 49th anniversary of de Gaulle's June 18th, 1940 appeal from London calling on the French to resist.