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

Sarkozy under extra police protection in prison after inmate threatens to kill him to ‘avenge Gaddafi’ - The dramatic ...

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 ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, begins his five-year prison sentence for conspiracy linked to Libyan campaign funds. Sarkozy, defiant yet acquitted of using funds, faces modern prison ...

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

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 ...

Macron said it would be "inappropriate" to honor Vichy leader Philippe Petain after calling him "a great soldier" for his World War I heroics. (JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron said he had no ...

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 ...

President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday there would be no official homage to Nazi collaborator Philippe Petain as part of World War I ceremonies this week, a day after sparking outrage by saying his ...