His work led him to be recruited by the French Resistance, and he stepped up his involvement after his mother was killed on her way back to Paris after ... t end with the liberation of France ...

Macron announced that scholar and Resistance fighter Marc Bloch, tortured and executed by the Gestapo in 1944, would be reinterred in the Pantheon -- the Paris monument to France's greatest citizens.

Patrick Bishop, acclaimed historian and author of bestsellers about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War ("Fighter Boys" and "Bomber Boys"), longtime foreign correspondent, and former Paris ...

Chosen to lead France’s 18th government since the Liberation: Finance Expert Rene Joel Simon Mayer. Born: Paris, May 4, 1895, grandson of a rabbi, son of Jacob Justin Mayer, director of a ...