French poet, journalist, war correspondent and member of the French Resistance, Madeleine Riffaud, poses during a photo session at her home in Paris, on June 17, 2024.

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, who has died aged 100, was a heroine of the French Resistance and one of the last surviving links with the Liberation of Paris in 1944. The decisive moment of her life, she ...

France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday, the holiday marking the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in the French Revolution.

The French Resistance. 3 minute read. BRUCE CRUMLEY Paris. September 4, 2000 12:00 AM EDT.

The coffin of French resistance figure Pierre Brossolette is carried by Republican Guards for a ceremony in the courtyard of the Sorbonne University in Paris, Tuesday May 26, 2015.

Free French units led by Gen. Philippe Leclerc -- backed by the U.S. Army 4th Infantry - pushed into central Paris. At about 3 p.m., the German commander, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered.