Few home-grown 20th-century leaders prompt as much discomfort for the French as Philippe Pétain. The head of the Vichy regime, who signed the armistice with Germany on June 22nd 1940 and was ...

A senior French official said Saturday legal action would be taken over comments made praising Philippe Petain, France's wartime head of state convicted of treason after World War II. The row is the ...

A senior French official said on Saturday that legal action would be taken over comments made praising Philippe Petain, Vichy France’s wartime head of state who collaborated with the Nazis and was ...

MAUBEUGE, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he had always condemned Marshal Philippe Petain, who collaborated with Nazi Germany in sending thousands of Jews to their death, ...

The French government has backed down over apparent plans to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Pétain -- who collaborated with the Nazis in the deportation of Jews from France during World War II -- as ...

A Not-So-Faithful Portrayal of the Women of the Bible Risotto for the Masses In 1916, Marshal Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun, had become the personification of a France that would never submit to ...

In February 1916, in the second year of World War I, the German Army launched its attack on the fortress of Verdun. Although forced to yield ground, 59-year-old General Henri Philippe Pétain held ...

This lecture imagines how the Greek biographer Plutarch might write a Parallel Lives of an ancient and a modern stateman: Phocion the Good was a fourth-century Athenian statesman, who capped his long ...

Markers on Lower Broadway recognize leaders who received ticker-tape parades. Some of them are now regarded as war criminals. By James Barron Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s ...

A motorcade of eight cars crossed the Swiss frontier from the collapsing Third Reich. A very old Frenchman, wearing a black coat and a grey fedora, was the chief passenger. Beside him sat his worried ...

Delarue said the comments made praising Petain during the ceremony were 'clearly revisionist' Boncompain argued that Petain's post-war conviction for treason had not been a fair one About a hundred ...