General de Gaulle is supposed once to have said, ‘Resistance was a bluff, but it came off.' Certainly, during and shortly after the Second World War, a widespread popular belief grew up, both in ...

Europe considers stationing thousands of troops in Ukraine in the case of a cease-fire with Moscow to serve as a deterrent ...

Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died.

Ivory Coast’s expulsion of French troops follows similar moves across the region, leaving a power vacuum that must be handled ...