ABSTRACT
On 26 August 1944, a triumphant Charles de Gaulle walked down the ChampsÉlysées in a still-not-fully liberated Paris. In the cheering crowd was a tall, elegant woman accompanied by another woman. Suddenly shots rang out. ey missed de Gaulle, but several other people fell to the ground. e two women, along with everyone else in the vicinity, ran from the snipers and eventually took refuge in a basement. In spite of the danger, Simone de Beauvoir spent the next couple of days moving around Paris, covering the liberation for a newspaper.
