Curtains. It didnt matter. Four days later we heard shouting. Everybody. People were screaming. The french army had arrived. I kissed my husband. We began to realize how unhappy we have been ppfor years. How lucky we were to be alive on this evening in august. Professor university of wisconsin madison Mary Louise Roberts is a history professor at the, Mary Louise Roberts is a history professor at the university of wisconsin madison. Joining us this morning on American History tv, washington journal on our focus on dday to talk about her book dday through french eyes. Professor roberts, we just heard video from the liberation of paris later that summer. Take us back to before the invasion. What was normandy like on june 5 . What were the citizens like . The french had been under German Occupation since 1940. In normandy, the food situation was better than the rest of france. It was the dairyland of france. I tell my students, the wisconsin of france. There was more abundant food. At the