While most French towns and cities have a street named after wartime hero Charles de Gaulle, there remains only one named after his nemesis, France’s Nazi-allied wartime leader Marshal Philippe Pétain ...

The Government of Germany learned last week what the people of France have gradually learned since the Armistice of June 22: that France’s Chief of State is no stooge of Adolf Hitler, of Pierre Laval, ...

France's collaborationist wartime leader Marshal Philippe Petain -- who history has condemned for betraying his country to the Nazis -- may have had Alzheimer's disease, a new study has shown.

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to justify paying homage to Nazi collaborator Philippe Pétain during centenary commemorations marking the end of World War One later this week. Mr Macron ...

The tomb of Marshal Philippe Petain, who led France's collaborationist Vichy regime under Nazi occupation, was vandalised on Saturday, the eve of the 66th anniversary of his death, police said. Police ...

The tomb of French Marechal Philippe Petain in the cemetery of Port Joinville on Ile-d'Yeu island, western France. Photo by Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP In a saga that captivated France half a century ...

The president's comments, which were made during a walkabout in Charleville-Mezieres, in the eastern Ardennes department, had sparked anger because the wartime collaborator helped deport Jews to ...

FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron sparked outrage today by paying tribute to his country’s most infamous Nazi collaborator. The head of state said Philippe Petain was “a great soldier” during the First ...

Proof that Petain did not seek to save Jews in France A newly discovered document establishing Second World War restrictions on Jews in France has exposed as a lie claims that the collaborationist ...

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain; By Julian Jackson; Belknap Press; 480 pp., $35.00 In October 1940, following a sharp and painful defeat to the Nazi Wehrmacht over the summer, Pétain shook ...