August 29, while the bells of the city sound with any flight, the troops ravel on the quay of the Belgians.
Joy of the Marseillais...
The joy is too strong, too poignant happiness.
The released Marseillais show their recognition with these men come from so far.
In this end of August 44, they pay a homage national to their liberators. They want to forget humiliations, to erase the nightmare.
Hardly given of the tiredness of the attack, they covered their djellabas, capped their turbans and behind the colonel Boyer de Latour, controlling the 2nd Grouping of tabors ("of the savages out of dressing gown as the Germans who called them, feared them"), they ravel under the acclamation.
... where will côtoieront themselves, with the elbow with elbows, Armée of Africa and F.F.I.
The General De Lattre de Tassigny, surrounded of the General of Montsabert and the new municipal president of the Delegation (provisional) Raymond Aubrac Police chief of the Republic, of Jean Cristofol and of Gaston Defferre alias Massereau in clandestinity, (is it already aware that its history of love with Marseilles which it contributed to release will last 33 years?), review the victorious troops.