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 ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday entered a Paris jail where he will be incarcerated over seeking to acquire ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy left his Paris home on Tuesday to head to jail, walking hand in hand with his wife ...

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

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 ...

Sarkozy was convicted of criminal conspiracy for seeking campaign funds for 2007 election from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

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

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

MAUBEUGE, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he had always condemned Marshal Philippe Petain, who collaborated with Nazi Germany in sending thousands of Jews to their death, ...