Punto encuentro Versalles

The meeting point at the Rue de Grenelle corner features a modest, weathered bronze plaque bolted to the stone facade. It marks the precise spot where the French Resistance transmitted coded messages to Allied forces during the occupation of Paris. In nineteen forty-three, a local clockmaker concealed a wireless radio inside the wall, feeding information about German troop movements through the back of his shop. The Gestapo missed the transmitter during three separate raids before the network finally went dark in August of forty-four.