Historical photograph of the presentation of the Liberation Cross by General De Gaulle to Winston Churchill on November 6, 1958, decorated with an extremely rare autograph signature in blue ink and completed with the date of the event, of General De Gaulle.

Stamp on the back of Wide World Photos and copy right (American Photographic Studio in New York active from 1910, had a branch in Paris).

Original silver photograph with two vertical folds, otherwise good condition.

The decree signed on June 18, 1958, pays eloquent tribute to the hero of the Second World War: "As Prime Minister of Great Britain, at the time of the worst danger facing Europe, inspired and led the resistance of his country and thereby contributed decisively to saving the freedom of the world. […]". A few months later, on November 6, 1958, in tribute to the eminent services rendered to Free France during the war, General de Gaulle, head of government, decorated Winston Churchill with the Cross of Liberation, in the grounds of the Hotel Matignon in Paris, after having pronounced the ritual words: "We recognize you as our companion for the liberation of France, in honor and through victory". At the end of the ceremony, General Ingold, Chancellor of the Order of Liberation, presented the latter with a crystal cross of Lorraine, a nod to the famous phrase of the tenant of 10 Downing Street: "From all the crosses I have carried, the heaviest has been the Cross of Lorraine".