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State visit to France: King Charles III delivers speech to the French Senate; Part 6 of 15FRANCE: Paris: The Luxembourg Palace:INTKing Charles III speech SOT (partly in French with dubbing, partly in English).- "Today, in confronting the greatest challenges of our time, we continue the work of those who came before us. When General de Gaulle spoke to the French people from London in June of nineteen-forty, he said, ‘remember this, France does not stand alone. She is not isolated… she can make common cause with the British’.De Gaulle’s confidence in our alliance was well founded. Two days before the appel du dix-huit juin, Sir Winston Churchill’s government had offered France “an indissoluble political union” which would have allowed our two peoples to continue the fight for justice and freedom as a single country. Just two months after that historic broadcast, my grandfather, King George the sixth, proudly wearing the crimson ribbon of the Légion d’honneur, joined de Gaulle at Morval Camp, near Aldershot, to inspect two-thousand five-hundred of the Free French Troops. The common determination expressed that day sustained us through the long and bitter years of that war and drove us forward together, to victory.