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Liberation

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Liberation 

two bourgeois organizations of the French Resistance in World War II that operated during the occupation of France by Nazi Germany. The organizations were known as Liberation Nord in the north of France and as Liberation Sud in the south. Beginning in 1943 the two were represented in the Council of National Resistance. The organizations published a newspaper, Liberation.

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Koloskov, I. A., and N. G. Tsyrul’nikov. Narod Frantsii v bor’be protiv fashizma. Moscow, 1960.
Le Parti communiste français dans la Resistance. Paris, 1967.
Noguères, H. Histoire de la Résistance en France. Paris, 1967.
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The only thing that seemed clear to me -- and perhaps even this was fanciful -- was that he was passionately striving for liberation from some power that held him.
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Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large buildings- schools, hospitals, and asylums- on all the estates before the master arrived.
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I saw him, from the midst of my act, meet it with a divination, and on the perception that even now he only guessed, and that the window was still to his own eyes free, I let the impulse flame up to convert the climax of his dismay into the very proof of his liberation.
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