[3] On 11 November 1998, the 80th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, the statue was unveiled in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and the President of France, Jacques Chirac.
The British monarch gave a speech in French on how Churchill and De Gaulle had overcome their differences.
[3] The BBC reported in 1998 that Churchill is opposed by a minority in France for events such as the Allied bombing of German-occupied French locations.
[3] In August 2009, the statue was vandalised in red paint with the initials of Rudolf Hess, the Nazi who Churchill had arrested when he travelled to the UK for peace talks.
[4] In July 2015, a French court ordered Nike, Inc. and an events company to pay a total of €135,000 damages to Cardot, who had sued them for unauthorised promotional use of his statue.