Ephemeris of September 12

1943: An SS commando frees Mussolini, imprisoned in Abruzzo since July.

1940: Four young people from Périgord discover the Lascaux cave near Montignac.

1914 : French victory on the Marne. The battle, which lasted seven days, marked the end of the advance of German troops.

1789: The revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat founds the newspaper "l'Ami du peuple".

1683: A Kahlenberg, near Vienna, the Ottoman army of the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha was routed by the King of Poland, Jean Sobieski.

1494: François d'Angoulême, future François I, is born in Cognac.