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PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage Friday on a Riviera beach to soldiers from French colonies who 65 years ago landed in southern France to help defeat the Nazis in what is known as the “forgotten D-Day.”
The Aug. 15, 1944, southern landing in Provence “played an absolutely decisive role in France’s participation in the final victory,” Sarkozy said in a speech on La Nartelle beach in Sainte-Maxime.
But in Paris, these colonial soldiers who slipped off the pages of history — and also the French bankroll — demonstrated, still hoping for a larger military pension for the estimated 80,000 of them still alive.
