Today's the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from the Nazis. I was walking to work this morning down the Champs Elysées and a column of Free French armoured vehicles drove past, which was both a sight and a sound to behold. It's just one of the events scheduled for today, including a huge public ball this evenoing at the Bastille. It's something the French do very well.

But to watch the TV and read the papers here, you'd think the French liberated themselves. Nothing about the Americans at all, just like the Brits and the Americans tend to gloss over the fact the Russians liberated Berlin.

It's a funny thing, history.