Sarkozy visit marks 70th year of de Gaulle’s radio broadcast

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy marked the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s defiant World War II broadcast from London yesterday, visiting resistance sites and pledging to use historic ties with Britain to tackle modern challenges.

Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy toured studio B2 at London’s Broadcasting House, the BBC complex in central London where de Gaulle urged his compatriots to resist the German occupation.

Prince Charles later guided the couple on a tour of the London headquarters of the Free French, the fighters led by de Gaulle to resist Nazi Germany’s advance.