France is marking its biggest national holiday, Bastille Day, with a spectacular display of military might and national pride ...

France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the ...

Simone Segouin, French Resistance fighter, dies at 97 ‘It’s true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don’t draw any pride from it,’ she later said ...

The French resistance comprised underground organizations that fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy regime, playing a key role in the liberation of the country.

Even after their country fell under Nazi control after France's surrender in 1940, bands of French resistance members continued to fight back using whatever arms they could scrounge or be supplied.

MEYMAC, France (AFP) — A search began in France on Tuesday for the remains of dozens of German soldiers said to have been executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II. Coming 79 ...

Madeleine Riffaud, who fought for Paris with French Resistance, dies at 100 Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.

The most effective resistance in WWII was disproportionately made up of immigrants, students, and Spanish communists.

When poet René Char joined the French Resistance against Nazi occupation of France in WWII, he led sections of the maquis, rural guerrilla units, in Provence, and orchestrated dangerous parachute ...