“Paris is the happiest city in the world tonight. All Paris is dancing in the streets.”

— Larry LeSueur

Goldstein, Richard. " Larry LeSueur, Pioneering War Correspondent, Dies at 93 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/larry-lesueur-pioneering-war-correspondent-dies-at-93.html", (obituary), The New York Times, February 7, 2003, accessed June 21, 2011, from a radio broadcast following the 1944 Liberation of Paris.

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