 Part of the French 2nd Armored Division was to leave from Rambouillet at dawn the following day, on its march "to capture Paris".On August 25, around 2 p.m., "both wrought with emotion and filled with serenity", General de Gaulle left Rambouillet by car to enter ""Paris libérée"".During the 1960s, “Foreign leaders were often put up in the magnificent surroundings of the Château de Rambouillet,” and foreign dignitaries would be invited to shoot birds there in autumn.