The future Marshal Leclerc escaped thanks to a lie

Philippe de Hauteclocque managed to escape captivity in May 1940 by pretending to be a discharged father of a large family. Captured on a bicycle in civilian clothes, he displayed a quinine prescription mentioning his children to deceive the officer questioning him. Tired, the German finally dismissed him with disdain in Bohain-en-Vermandois, allowing him to resume the fight.