So on Aug. 26, 1944, when French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had just been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation, the party was on. On June 18, 1940 — one day after British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his “Their Finest Hour” speech over radio airwaves — de Gaulle himself broadcast to German occupied France, and rallied the French Resistance to him in London. With threat of an armistice with Germany imminent, de Gaulle refused to accept that the fight for his country was over; “Quoi qu’il arrive, la flamme de la résistance française ne doit pas s’éteindre et ne s’éteindra pas,” he said, or “Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and will not be extinguished!”