In pictures: the Citroën DS

Where the 2CV defined function, the Citroën DS spelled glamour and aspiration for a French generation
  
  


Gallery Citroen DS: Citroen DS cars in Paris
Two French cultural icons, the Citroën DS and the Eiffel Tower, pictured in the 1960s Photograph: /Rex Features
Gallery Citroen DS: Crowds at the Paris Motor Show in the Grand Palais surround a Citroen DS-19
Crowds at the 1955 Paris motor show in the Grand Palais surround a Citroën DS-19 Photograph: Keystone/Getty
Gallery Citroen DS: Charles De Gaulle in his Citroen ds
General Charles De Gaulle riding in a motorcade through Algiers, Algeria, in his DS in 1958 Photograph: Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Gallery Citroen DS: General de Gaulle's Citroen DS in Paris, after an assassination attempt
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 Images
Gallery Citroen DS: Citroen DS cars from the 1960's
A line of Citroën DS cars in the main showroom on the Champs-Elysees in Paris in 1965 Photograph: Charles Edridge/Getty Images
Gallery Citroen DS: Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel, the singer-songwriter actor turned director, behind the wheel of his DS in 1963 Photograph: Pierre Fournier/Sygma/Corbis
Gallery Citroen DS: Citroen DS
A Citroën DS in action Photograph: Phil Talbot /Rex Features
Gallery Citroen DS: Citroen Ds
Interior details of the fabled car's steering wheel and dashboard Photograph: Sipa Press /Rex Features
Gallery Citroen DS: detail of the tail lights of aCitroen Ds 20
Details of the rear lights of a Citroën DS-20 Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
Gallery Citroen DS: The citroen DS
The Citroën DS's characteristic rear bodywork Photograph: Rex Features/Phil Talbot
 

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