Place du 18 Juin

The Place du Dix-huit Juin serves as the bustling threshold to the Cannes train station, marked by the prominent bronze statue of a soldier in the uniform of the Free French Forces. This square commemorates June eighteenth, nineteen forty, the day Charles de Gaulle broadcast his appeal from London for the French to resist the German occupation. It remains a transit hub where commuters rush toward the coast, ignoring the heavy plaque embedded in the granite that honors the local resistance fighters who died here.