Two French cultural icons, the Citroën DS and the Eiffel Tower, pictured in the 1960sPhotograph: /Rex FeaturesCrowds at the 1955 Paris motor show in the Grand Palais surround a Citroën DS-19Photograph: Keystone/GettyGeneral Charles De Gaulle riding in a motorcade through Algiers, Algeria, in his DS in 1958Photograph: Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
A man examines one of the bulletholes in French president General de Gaulle's Citroën DS in Paris, following an assassination attempt in Le Petit-Clamart suburb on 22 August 1962 Photograph: Keystone/Getty ImagesA line of Citroën DS cars in the main showroom on the Champs-Elysees in Paris in 1965Photograph: Charles Edridge/Getty ImagesJacques Brel, the singer-songwriter actor turned director, behind the wheel of his DS in 1963Photograph: Pierre Fournier/Sygma/CorbisA Citroën DS in action Photograph: Phil Talbot /Rex FeaturesInterior details of the fabled car's steering wheel and dashboardPhotograph: Sipa Press /Rex FeaturesDetails of the rear lights of a Citroën DS-20 Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex FeaturesThe Citroën DS's characteristic rear bodyworkPhotograph: Rex Features/Phil Talbot
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