Historically, the octogenarian Marshal Philippe Pétain is unique. He is the only Frenchman who ever survived a hundred and seven French governments and then founded one of his own, the hundred and ...

Jacques Boncompain, head of the Association to Defend the Memory of Philippe Pétain, after organizing a mass in tribute to the disgraced WWII-era leader in Verdun, northeastern France, November 15, ...

The last and heaviest burden in the destiny of Henri Philippe Petain has been a seemingly interminable life. The officer who waited 44 years to become a major, 62 years to be Marshal of France, 84 ...

I spent some of Thanksgiving eve thumbing through 1972's Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 1940-1944, Columbia University history professor Robert Paxton's 1972 history of the French government ...

A senior French official said on Saturday that legal action would be taken over comments made praising Philippe Petain, Vichy France’s wartime head of state who collaborated with the Nazis and was ...

On July 10, 1916, my great-uncle, a young French army lieutenant only 24 years old, was killed in battle as he defended the fortress at Verdun against the German onslaught, under the command of his ...

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, ...