NOUN
- a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic
How To Use Free French In A Sentence
- Our main sources of agents were the various Free French Intelligence ( FFI ) organizations.
- Married herself to "a famous bore", Nancy led a miserable life until an affair with a Free French colonel beckoned her to Paris and sexual and artistic liberation.
- Although this war record of a Free French pilot in the RAF was first published in 1951, this is the first complete and unabridged edition and is based on M. Clostermann's wartime diary.
- Consider as an illustration Sartre's example of a young man torn between joining the Free French and caring for his aging mother.
- Francophiles will claim Charles de Gaulle's rallying cries to the ‘free French’ to resist were a turning point in their nation's fortunes.
- Dispatched initially to rally Free French support in Cameroon and Gabon, he found fame for a number of morale-boosting military exploits in North Africa.
- Over the years her customers included Free French sailors, a poacher who kept a 12-bore tied to his bicycle crossbar, the writer John Wyndham and a dog that smoked a pipe.
- Free French officers were landed by air and boat to negotiate the port's peaceful transfer, but they received a hostile response as did an advance landing party.
- He was picked up by the free French and was dressed up as a mute Belgian Farmer.
- It was the more secretive networks (réseaux) of intelligence and escape which forged the first working links with the British or the Free French in London.
