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Letters from Robert Sage in Paris during the Second World War describing Parisian life in a German-occupied city. Includes Butler's correspondence with P.L. Travers relating to the revision of Mary Poppins, and correspondence with Harriet Taylor Upton, an activist in the women's suffrage movement.

Content Description Trading cards featuring photographs of the liberation of Paris by the Allies in August 1944. Included are images of General Charles de Gaulle and other French commanding officers, local citizens greeting American soldiers, German soldiers taken prisoner, remnants of fighting in the streets, and crowds gathered around the Arc de Triomphe and near Notre Dame cathedral. Captions for the photographs are printed on the paper wrapper. The photos are numbered from 81-100 and designated on the...