Few home-grown 20th-century leaders prompt as much discomfort for the French as Philippe Pétain. The head of the Vichy regime, who signed the armistice with Germany on June 22nd 1940 and was ...

Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron waded into controversy Wednesday by praising a general who helped win World War I but became a top Nazi collaborator in World War II — comments that triggered ...

CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said it was "legitimate" to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who led the French army to victory in World War I's ...

The French government has backed down over apparent plans to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Pétain – who collaborated with the Nazis in the deportation of Jews from France during World War II – as ...

The 70-year-old becomes the first former French leader to be jailed since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain ...

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to ...

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyers say, as he shows up to a Paris prison to serve a five-year sentence, that they've ...

France's former president is starting his prison term after being convicted of criminal conspiracy linked to Libyan financing ...