In 1942, during the Occupation, this Surrealist poet wrote a poem of resistance that was distributed clandestinely and then dropped by the Royal Air Force in their thousands over France. What is this poem, now famous?
The answer
Paul Éluard wrote ‘Liberty’ in 1942. Distributed clandestinely during the Occupation, the poem was later printed in tens of thousands of copies and dropped by the Royal Air Force over occupied France. Éluard rests in Division 97.
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