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Originally Posted by BossMark
1944 - The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
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Shortly before the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, Radio Londres broadcast the first stanza of Paul Verlaine's poem "Chanson d'automne" to let the resistance know that the invasion would begin within 24 hours.
Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
Blessent mon cœur d'une langeur monotone ("wound my heart with a monotonous languor") was the specific call to action.