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unusual facts about Philippe Leclerc



Écouché in the Second World War

World War II for Écouché culminated with several days of street fighting by Free French forces under General Philippe Leclerc.

Henri de Gaulle

Among his students were his four sons, as well as Georges Bernanos and the future marshals Philippe Leclerc and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

Michel Arnaud

He participated to Philippe Leclerc's offensive against Italian positions in Libya, but was badly wounded near Kufra on 8 February 1941, and sent to hospital first at Yaoundé and then at Beirut.


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Caza

In 2002-2003, he works with Philippe Leclerc on the animated film The Rain Children, based on a novel by Serge Brussolo.

Serge Brussolo

In 2003, his novel A l'image du dragon was freely adapted into an animated motion picture, The Rain Children, by Philippe Leclerc.