In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou presented a severe €43.8 billion in budget cuts on Tuesday, including a proposal to ...

Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.

The 'Safe Place for Science' program is welcoming US scholars fleeing Trump's restrictions on science and research.

The women, who supported the French resistance against Nazi occupation, had a moving reunion in April -- it was the first time they had seen each other since being freed from a German ...

France 's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

THE masses of the French people simply did not understand what was happening to them when the German military machine rolled across the Loire and, with hardly a pause, down to Bordeaux and the ...

" Julien Blanc, a historian of the Nazi Occupation and French Resistance, says the photographs are different from the propaganda shots taken by Nazi-authorized photographers.

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes.

“The Nine”, by Gwen Strauss, tells the extraordinary true story of how nine young women from the Resistance survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp and then escaped from a death march in ...

As part of the Resistance, Madeleine Riffaud collected guns, organized sabotage missions, recruited fighters and once shot and killed a German officer ...