Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Madeleine Riffaud in 1968: her shooting of a German soldier in occupied Paris as retribution for the SS’s massacre at ...

Half a century after Gaumont delivered France's first film on Nazi collaboration with Louis Malle's “Lacombe Lucien,” the ...

Renee Guette, 98, laughed as she looked at her computer screen in Texas. On the other end of the video call was 97-year-old Andree Dupont, living in France. The women, who supported the French ...

Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. Madeleine Riffaud ...

The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R” from France, during the Second World War, when ordinary people organized and fought back ...

​Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust, and after the liberation of Paris in 1944 she joined the French First ...