Pte Ray Bailey, from Dunstable in Bedfordshire, was among the Allied troops captured by the Germans in 1940 after the French ...

At a county fair in France, a young Solange Lebovitz noticed everyone staring at her. A shy girl, she quickly deduced the ...

Paris, he declared, had been “liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the armies of France, with the ...

Critics have found a skeleton in the closet almost as soon as Michel Barnier was named France’s new prime minister ...

After France's 1940 defeat by Germany in World War II, the Vichy government that collaborated with the country's Nazi occupiers also introduced a law that specifically targeted homosexuality.

The second time the Eiffel Tower was almost destroyed was during the German occupation of France during World War II. Hitler planned to get rid of the tower, but never ended up going through with ...

Chelsea defender Malo Gusto has pulled out of international duty with France due to injury. The French Football Federation (FFF) announced that the Blues right-back was among three withdrawals ...

As the subject is highly politicized, state data from France and different institutions in charge of the reception of migrants deserves a closer look. The immigrant population is diverse in terms ...

On 25 August 1940, the RAF launched its first raid on Berlin in retaliation for the German bombing of London the previous day. Photo: A fateful picture of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley taking off ...

Eight weeks after the snap elections triggered by the dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale, France finds itself in an unprecedented and dangerous political situation. Neither Macron's prolonged ...

Moreover, the document echoed the concept of a "civilising mission" used in the colonial propaganda of the Third Republic, France's system of government from 1870 to 1940, explaining that the ...