Within an hour of Ike's decision to go, the BBC began to broadcast its nightly "messages personnel" to the French Resistance. But, on this night, several of the messages were codes for the Maquis to begin sabotage operations. Two of them were: "Blessent mon Coeur d'une langeur monotone" (Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor) "Jean a une longe moustache." (John has a long mustache.) Those in the French Resistance knew that the hour of liberation was at hand.
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...Even more astonishing, the German Wehrmacht high command had plenty of warning. A German spy at the British Embassy in Turkey had told his superiors in Berlin that the BBC in London would alert the French Resistance to the invasion by broadcasting a two-part coded message taken from a poem by Paul Verlaine called "Song of Autumn."
The first part would be: "The long sobs of the violins of autumn." The second, signaling an attack within 48 hours, was: "Wound my heart with a monotonous languor." The poem was duly broadcast and set off a wide range of railroad demolition and other destructive activities by the French underground...
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In reference to my early mention of The Longest Day
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