5/10/2023 0 Comments Crying salute![]() ![]() France’s capitulation was signed in the same railroad car at the same spot. It occupied a hallowed space within a small forest north of Paris. The French had maintained as a memorial the railroad car in which the armistice ending World War I had been signed twenty-two years earlier. Hitler insisted on signing the document of the capitulation of France in the same railway carriage used when Germany had surrendered in 1918. Judging by the footage, this picture was not taken in Paris (as it is claimed by many sources). In the video footage below (00:27) we can see the crying Frenchman as the French troops march on their way out of France. The magazine caption identifies it as “a Frenchman sheds tears of patriotic grief as the flags of his country’s last regiments are exiled to Africa”. The photo first appeared in print in Life Magazine in their Maissue. The book “Marseille sous l’occupation” by Lucien Gaillard says that the man in photo is Monsieur Jerôme Barzetti, and the picture taken in Marseilles on September, 1940. The French collapse was as sudden as it was unexpected, a stunning defeat – particularly since before the war the French army was considered the most powerful in Europe. ![]() In six weeks, the vaunted French army, the Maginot Line, and all of France’s pride were destroyed by the German blitzkreig. The glory of France has been ground underfoot by German armies. The French regimental flags had been moved into the south of France in order to preserve them from the surrender. The photo is nicknamed “ The weeping Frenchman” and by some other sources as “ The Crying Frenchman“. The man’s face conveys a sense of grief so profound as to transcend our expectations. This smiley doesn’t imply the meaning of happy tears, because of its sad. And its meaning is quite obvious it is all about being extremely Sad and disappointed with something, crying because of sadness or pain. French people staring and waving at the French Army remaining troops leaving metropolitan France at Marseilles harbor, 1940.įrenchman crying as the flags of fallen France were marched through the streets of Marseilles on their way to Africa. Crying Face emoji is a smiley with at least one teardrop falling out of its Eyes.
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