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.

Even after their country fell under Nazi control after France's surrender in 1940, bands of French resistance members continued to fight back using whatever arms they could scrounge or be supplied.

France invaded Mexico under Emperor Napoleon III, citing unpaid debts as a pretext to expand French influence and establish a ...

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.

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 ...

French Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps starting the next year; the German occupation then expanded into the southern half of France. French men ages 18 to 20 were ordered to ...

There is no real French equivalent, although the film that comes closest is René Clément’s Bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails). Filmed in the summer of 1945, within a year of France’s ...

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.