I was watching a documentary called The World Wars and the claim is made by French historian Jean Yves Les Naour that after the D-Day landings and during the speedy invasion of France, the Allied leadership, save for De Gaulle (for obvious reasons), didn't see Paris as a valuable target and they didn't want to liberate it because they were worried that there would be fighting in the streets, so De Gaulle had to pressure the Allies into helping him free Paris. Les Naour even goes as far as to say quote 'the Americans couldn't care less about Paris'.
Does this have any basis in fact or is this just French nationalist boasting?
Does this have any basis in fact or is this just French nationalist boasting?