Resistance: When France's clergy saved Jews during WWII. ... In the spring of 1940, the French army was defeated by the Wehrmacht, and Marshal Pétain agreed to collaborate with the occupying forces.

Europe's top human rights court on Thursday ruled France was within its rights to hand suspended fines to climate activists ...

The French resistance comprised underground organizations that fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy regime, playing a key role in the liberation of the country.

MEYMAC, France (AFP) — A search began in France on Tuesday for the remains of dozens of German soldiers said to have been executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II.

When France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian and other foreigners among French Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked. French ...

When poet René Char joined the French Resistance against Nazi occupation of France in WWII, he led sections of the maquis, rural guerrilla units, in Provence, and orchestrated dangerous parachute ...

Anne Beaumanoir, a French resistance member who guided Jews to safety in her Nazi-occupied homeland during World War II, then became an anti-colonial activist jailed in France for backing Algerian ...

It galls the French government that its citizens increasingly prefer Hollywood movies to those produced in France. So to limit cultural contamination, Paris sets import quotas on American-made ...

Simone Segouin, French Resistance fighter, dies at 97 ‘It’s true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don’t draw any pride from it,’ she later said February 22, 2023 More ...

One of the real-life heroes featured in Bertrand Tavernier's wartime drama "Laissez Passer" will today seek an injunction against the new pic's release on French screens next week.