Paris — The last of the 177 elite French troops who joined the Allies' harrowing beach landings in Normandy in 1944 has died. Leon Gautier was 100, and he died less than a month after he returned to the now-quiet beaches for a commemoration ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron. Gautier's death was announced by the mayor of Ouistreham, a French community on the English Channel coast where Allies landed on June 6, 1944, D-Day, and where Gautier lived his last years. French President Emmanuel Macron (front R) and French WWII veteran of the Commando Kieffer, Leon Gautier (C),...