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Weeping Frenchman[edit]
The Weeping Frenchman, also known as the Crying Frenchman is an iconic imag published in the 3 March 1941 issue of Life magazine on page 29 with the caption, "A Frenchman sheds tears of patriotic grief as flags of his country's lost regiments are exiled to Africa."
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The picture is not actually a photograph, but is a still from film footage shot in Marseilles during a procession of French regimental flags on their way to Africa to preserve them from surrender.[1][2]