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15. In France the attempt to hold up the Germans along the line of the Somme by the remaining British and French forces failed. Paris was declared an open city and the German armour passed on towards the Loire. The Government of M. Reynaud proved incapable of holding
France in the war and was replaced by that of Marshal Pétain. The British offer of a Union with France had been rejected, and the German terms for an armistice were accepted. The British peoples were alone.
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