Madeleine Riffaud, who has died aged 100, was a heroine of the French Resistance and one of the last surviving links with the ...

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 — 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.

On February 21, 1944, at Mont-Valérien prison near Paris, Nazi troops shot communist immigrant worker Missak Manouchian and 23 other members of his Sharpshooters and Partisans-Immigrant Work Force ...

She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her story, too, would survive, she depicted them years later in a series of stark paintings. By Adam Nossiter In ...

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the ...

​Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust, and after the liberation of Paris in 1944 she joined the French First ...

The last surviving member of the French resistance force that withstood a German advance in a key battle in the north African ...

Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the Legion of Honor. When she was asked to spy for the French ...

The video may have lasted less than 30 seconds, but it was long enough to provoke anger from historians and members of the French public. In honor of National Resistance Day, which commemorates those ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...