Tag Archives: 2e guerre mondiale
“Chanson d’automne” (“Autumn Song”) Posted by Hichem on Sep 20, 2012
This is the incredible yet little known story of How One French Poem Helped Win the Second World War! When the allies were ready to land on the coasts of Normandy, they announced the news to the French Resistance by means of this poem, first published in 1866: “Chanson d’automne” (“Autumn Song”) by Paul Verlaine, one of the…