In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. She explained that they were taking the train to see family in their home village near ...
Odile de Vasselot, aged 99: she was spurred to action by de Gaulle’s radio broadcasts from London - THOMAS SAMSON/AFP Odile de Vasselot, who has died aged 103, served in the French Resistance during ...
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. Madeleine Riffaud ...
PARIS — The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in the town of Barjac, in the south of France. Documentary ...
PARIS (AP) — Paris authorities are escorting coffins representing four World War II resistance figures through the French capital toward the Pantheon, the resting place of French heroes. The event ...
Scores of tractors were driven into Paris in protest over a EU deal that would create the world's largest free-trade area.