Paris survived the Second World War largely intact, but look closely, and the traces of occupation, Resistance, and Liberation are still there.
Follow these clues across the Left Bank, from bullet-scarred façades and former barricade sites to the places where Resistance networks took shape. Your private guide connects these surviving details to the people behind them, revealing how intellectuals secretly printed the newspaper that gave the Resistance movement its name and how the streets around the Sorbonne became part of the fighting in August 1944. The story leads toward the Île de la Cité and the Préfecture de Police, where the uprising began, and Paris came dangerously close to a very different fate.
See familiar Paris differently through the traces of the people who resisted, fought, and helped shape its Liberation.
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