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Events on Tuesday 18 June 1940 1
1940Appeal of 18 JuneDe Gaulle calls on the French to keep fightingOn 18 June General Charles de Gaulle broadcast from the BBC in London and urged the French to reject the armistice and continue the war. Few heard the broadcast at the time. It came to be seen as the founding act of the Free French and the Resistance.