The French government has backed down over apparent plans to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Pétain – who collaborated with the Nazis in the deportation of Jews from France during World War II – as ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron waded into controversy Wednesday by praising a general who helped win World War I but became a top Nazi collaborator in World War II — comments that triggered ...

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 ...

Markers on Lower Broadway recognize leaders who received ticker-tape parades. Some of them are now regarded as war criminals. By James Barron Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s ...

On Wednesday, as he toured World War I battlefields in the run-up to tomorrow’s celebration in Paris of the centenary of the end of World War I, French President Emmanuel Macron hailed France’s ...

MAUBEUGE, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he had always condemned Marshal Philippe Petain, who collaborated with Nazi Germany in sending thousands of Jews to their death, ...

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 ...

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said the city must remove the names of Nazi collaborators Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval from the Canyon of Heroes — almost 100 years after they were ...

This lecture imagines how the Greek biographer Plutarch might write a Parallel Lives of an ancient and a modern stateman: Phocion the Good was a fourth-century Athenian statesman, who capped his long ...