Jean-Pierre Mallet, veteran with the medaille des Compagnons de la Liberation, attends a ceremony at...
Jean-Pierre Mallet, veteran with the medaille des Compagnons de la Liberation (Order of the Liberation Companion), atends a ceremony at the Mont Valerien memorial in Suresnes, outside of Paris, June 18, 2013 to mark the 73rd anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal of June 18, 1940. The Ordre de la Liberation established by General de Gaulle award 1036 heroes of the Liberation of France. Eight Compagnons de la Liberation attended the ceremony among the 21 surviving. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: MILITARY HEADSHOT POLITICS)