Watching the speech on the television set of a Paris bistro, I vividly recall how tears were brought to the eyes of most of those in the room, including cynical foreign journalists, when de Gaulle uttered those words of semi-mystical communion, “Eh bien, mon cher et vieux pays, nous voici donc ensemble, encore une fois….” I do not remember any fighting, wartime broadcast of Churchill having a greater effect.

XREF: Connects to histories of Vichy France and the 1940 armistice, and to Churchill's wartime broadcasts as comparative rhetorical moments.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1132