The leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic—a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man ...

Eleven men sat in the prisoners’ dock in a narrow Algiers courtroom. They were servants of Vichy—the officers and guards of a concentration camp in North Africa, now indicted and on trial for ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

Although the thermal spas have long been an attraction, it is was the frequent visits of French Emperor Napoleon III that put Vichy, France, on the map in the second half of the 19th century.

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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 ...

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.