>An officer in the Free French Navy, Jacques Bauche, recounted a telling anecdote on this subject. In early July 1940, Vice Admiral Émile Muselier, the first general officer to join de Gaulle in London, had to pay for a modest stock of Lorraine Cross insignia ordered from a British company: his embarrassment was palpable when he realized that resources were negligible.
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>Apart from 100,000 francs brought back by de Gaulle from the special funds at Matignon in Bordeaux, the payment for the French stock of heavy water that arrived in Plymouth on June 19, and a delivery of bauxite, in addition to a few individual donations (a Frenchman offered the general a gold nugget, which financial director Pierre Denis hastened to pawn), financial resources were at an all-time low.
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>An officer in the Free French Navy, Jacques Bauche, recounted a telling anecdote on this subject. In early July 1940, Vice Admiral Émile Muselier, the first general officer to join de Gaulle in London, had to pay for a modest stock of Lorraine Cross insignia ordered from a British company: his embarrassment was palpable when he realized that resources were negligible.
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>Apart from 100,000 francs brought back by de Gaulle from the special funds at Matignon in Bordeaux, the payment for the French stock of heavy water that arrived in Plymouth on June 19, and a delivery of bauxite, in addition to a few individual donations (a Frenchman offered the general a gold nugget, which financial director Pierre Denis hastened to pawn), financial resources were at an all-time low.
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