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...there was finally a trail, starting at Boussaid's bedside. It led to addresses in Paris, Lille, Belfort and Metz. In Paris the address was a five-story apartment house at 17 Rue Lucien-Sampaix, in the working-class 10th arrondissement. A new building was going up across from the apartment house, and D.S.T. agents disguised in painters' white overalls drove up each morning in a truck that contained a battery of cameras with telephoto lenses. For days, everyone who entered or left the house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians...
Through World War II, Pastor Etienne Mathiot of the French Reformed Church gave .refuge to hundreds of fleeing Jews, shot-down British pilots, escaped French prisoners and resistance fighters. Last year at his home in Belfort, near the Swiss border, he gave sanctuary to another hunted man. Si Ali Lahouedi, a student sought by the French police as a member of Algeria's Front de Liberation National. After hiding Si Ali in his house for weeks, Pastor Mathiot drove the fugitive to Switzerland. French police arrested the minister shortly after his return, charged him with treason. The trial stirred...
...villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France's Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...
With the 3rd and the 36th, the Thunderbirds landed in southern France, cracked the brittle shell of German resistance and slogged north. The 45th spearheaded the VI Corps' drive toward the Belfort Gap. By mid-December of 1944, the 45th had been 18 months overseas, .and 365 of those days in combat...
...Colmar pocket south of Strasbourg, the Germans had already probed within ten miles of the city. Thus, in their 19-mile strip of the Rhine's west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...