French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to justify ... "great soldier", even though he had made "disastrous choices" during WW2. Pétain was praised for the defence of Verdun in 1916, but ...

Meanwhile the reunion between the French head of state and His Majesty - who last met in September during Charles's state ... figure as they spoke with World War II veterans at the site.

Commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in the south of France have been partly cancelled due to the threat of thunderstorms. French President Emmanuel Macron was due to ...

The 86-year-old has no way of knowing which grave belongs to his father, M’Bap Senghor, one of likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II but were killed ...