The Vichy regime stands as one of the most shameful ... But what happened to turn France into a quasi-police state, and who were those responsible for doing so? Click through and revisit one ...

PARIS (AP) — France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève ...

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how ...

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics ...

Abortion had been criminalised in France since the 1800s, with convictions rising dramatically under the Vichy regime during World War II. Between 1940 and 1943, it was punishable by death.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right nationalist who made the Front National a leading force in French politics has died at the age of 96 ...

There are enough similarities in both films to warrant more than cursory attention, even to the fact that Humphrey Bogart is starred in each, though this story of Vichy France collaborationism is ...

As France commemorates 50 years since the law decriminalising abortion came into effect, prominent figures in politics and ...