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Charles Pégulu de Rovin, witness to the liberation of Paris August 1944, Paris: 18 year old engineering student Charles Pegulu de Rovin stamps his feet as the Allied troops approach. "We listened to the news on the radio. When the forces got closer to Paris, we wondered what we could do," he tells AFP, "I wanted orders, but there were none. I was just told 'it's happening at City Hall'", and off he went. Now 93, he describes what it was like to see the liberation of Paris. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES