France in 1940 ruled one of the largest empires the world had ever seen. Its tricolor flag flew over most of North and West Africa, a chain of possessions stretching from Polynesia to the ...

This file photo taken on May 31, 2017, shows the co-founder of France's far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen at a press conference in Marignane, France.

“My France, it wasn’t in Vichy, it was in London as of June 18,” he said on French BFM television, referring to Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Forces headquartered in Britain.

Although France had made solemn promises to keep its fleet beyond German or Italian control, Churchill was not convinced. The bombardment of the French fleet at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kébir ...

Former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen claims in his memoirs that France's wartime leader Philippe Petain did not dishonor himself by signing the 1940 armistice that allowed Nazi forces to ...

France's wartime leader Philippe Petain did not dishonour himself by signing the 1940 armistice that allowed Nazi forces to occupy the north of the country, former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le ...