The French enthusiasm for posthumous honors amounts to a form of American cancel culture in reverse. The public degradation ...

1621: Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London for one night. 1659: The Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. 1669: The last entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary.

Great art is called “timeless,” but that’s not quite right. A masterpiece is always timely. The world turns, generations pass ...

Marcel Ophuls, the documentary filmmaker behind the incisive WWII films "The Sorrow and the Pity" and "Hotel Terminus," has died at his home in France at the age of 97, according to the Associated ...

French far-right politician Eric Zemmour was ordered, on Wednesday, April 2, to pay a €10,000 fine for contesting crimes against humanity, by saying that Nazi collaborator Philippe Pétain had ...

SINGAPORE — A 72-year-old cabby is assisting with police investigations after the taxi he was driving allegedly crashed into a temple in Marne Road. The police said they were alerted to the ...

With the Foreign Ministry under Pierre Étienne Flandin, whom Petain does not trust either, the Marshal must have felt the need of a pair of shoulders as husky as M. Peyrouton’s. At week’s end ...

Petain led the French army to victory in Verdun in 1916, but gained infamy and a conviction for treason for his actions as leader of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944. He is despised for his ...

The book, described by the judges as “asking profound, historical questions about how to act in impossible circumstances”, uses the 1945 trial of Marshal Pétain to explore collusion and its ...

Much, for instance, was made of Petain’s April 1944 speech, in which, on the eve of D-Day, he praised the Germans’ “defense of the continent” against Bolshevism and warned against the ...

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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain, by Julian Jackson. Belknap Press. 480 pages. $35. Seventy-­two years after his death at the age of ninety-­five, Pétain remains a divisive symbol. To ...