Editing Free France (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Free French Memorial Greenock.jpg|thumb|left|The Free French memorial on [[Lyle Hill]], [[Greenock]], overlooks [[Gourock]], Scotland.]]

The [[Free French Memorial, Greenock|Free French Memorial]] on [[Lyle Hill]] in [[Greenock#History|Greenock]], in western [[Scotland]], in the shape of the Cross of Lorraine combined with an anchor, was raised by subscription as a memorial to sailors on the Free French Naval Forces vessels that sailed from the Firth of Clyde to take part in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The memorial is also associated, locally, with the memory of the {{Ship|French destroyer|Maillé Brézé|1931}} which sank at the ''[[Tail of the Bank]]''.<ref name="Jeffrey2014">{{cite book|author=Robert Jeffrey|title=Scotland's Cruel Sea: Heroism and Disaster off the Scottish Coast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eX8vBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT21|date=6 November 2014|publisher=Black & White Publishing|isbn=978-1-84502-887-9|page=21}}</ref>

To this day, General {{nowrap|de Gaulle}}'s Appeal of 18 June 1940 remains one of the most famous speeches in French history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2010/06/president-sarkozy-marks-annive.shtml|title=Sarkozy Marks Anniversary of General {{nowrap|de Gaulle}}'s BBC Broadcast|access-date=9 September 2017|newspaper=BBC|date=17 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019115254/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2010/06/president-sarkozy-marks-annive.shtml|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/101442.pdf |title=''Representations of the Second World War: Ideological Currents in French History'' (''core.ac.uk'') |access-date=9 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910042751/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/101442.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2017 |url-status=live  }}</ref>
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