White House rebuffs French Parliamentarian's call to reclaim the Statue of Liberty, asserting that US intervention in WWII saved France from Nazi rule ...

“In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.” –Bertolt Brecht When people imagine life under an authoritarian government, they ...

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

Grand Prix racing dates back much further than 1950, almost to the moment that the first automobiles appeared on the road. In ...

De Gaulle had been a personal protégé of the Marshal, writing that “My first colonel, Petain, showed me the meaning of the ... But none of the Allied leaders in World War II was notable for modesty; ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Last week, Mayor Eric Adams ...

A manufacturers' championship took place in the 1920s, but it was only after World War II and the emergence of ... who was a driver for Marshals Petain and Foch of the French army during the ...

We look at their deeds on the ground today. Do they denounce or ban party members with anti-Semitic statements?’ ...

At 03:00 on 10 May, Grand Duchess Charlotte, her husband and children hurried into a Fiat that Crown Prince Jean had received ...

What can be said is that for several years prior to World War II, the art world had been divided between a Franco-French Ecole Française rooted in French tradition, and a foreign-born (and often ...

Something quite similar happened in France during World War II, when the part of the country not under direct German occupation was run by General Philippe Petain’s collaborationist government and ...