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143 - MEMORABILIA. LIBERATION OF PARIS. Collection of leaflets, instructions on the use of German and Allied weapons and grenades, notices issued following the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings, including plans for an uprising on tissue paper, an interesting map of the Invalides district of Paris on tracing paper with annotations likely indicating German barricades or posts, and a handwritten note "I am asked to specify the names and titles of individuals with particular expertise in: automatic weapons and grenades, explosives, and demolition..." The collection originates from the French Partisan Free Shooters (FTPF), also included are badges from youth work camps and the Scouts (Louis Le Grand High School troop), as well as two FFI armbands—one stamped by the City Hall of Paris’s 17th arrondissement, the other bearing the rank of lieutenant and stamped “FFI SUD,” a collection of underground newspapers from 1944, including *L’Humanité*, *La France en armes*, *Les Lettres Françaises*, *L’Université Libre*, *Le Palais Libre*, etc. BE This collection of documents on the Liberation of Paris and its preparation comes from Pierre GOLDSCHILD-JOURDEL (1919–2001), a Scout, student, member of the Youth Work Camps, and later the FFI, who participated in the liberation of Paris.
MEMORABILIA. LIBERATION OF PARIS. Collection of leaflets, instructions on the use of German and Allied weapons and grenades, notices issued following the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings, including plans for an uprising on tissue paper, an interesting map of the Invalides district of Paris on tracing paper with annotations likely indicating German barricades or posts, and a handwritten note "I am asked to specify the names and titles of individuals with particular expertise in: automatic weapons and grenades, explosives, and demolition..." The collection originates from the French Partisan Free Shooters (FTPF), also included are badges from youth work camps and the Scouts (Louis Le Grand High School troop), as well as two FFI armbands—one stamped by the City Hall of Paris’s 17th arrondissement, the other bearing the rank of lieutenant and stamped “FFI SUD,” a collection of underground newspapers from 1944, including *L’Humanité*, *La France en armes*, *Les Lettres Françaises*, *L’Université Libre*, *Le Palais Libre*, etc. BE This collection of documents on the Liberation of Paris and its preparation comes from Pierre GOLDSCHILD-JOURDEL (1919–2001), a Scout, student, member of the Youth Work Camps, and later the FFI, who participated in the liberation of Paris.