Parisians were out in full force yesterday to celebrate 70 years of liberation in a sunny Paris. The city had a palpable energy on every street! Her code was 'Rainer' and she had a gun called 'Oscar'. Not yet 20 a young female medical student on a bicycle took up a gun, aimed at a Nazi officer and shot him dead on a Paris bridge on a Sunday afternoon. That deed on July 23, 1944, was Madeleine Riffaud's summons to Parisians to rise up against the oppressor.
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