French Resistance

Missak Manouchian, an Armenian genocide survivor who went on to become a French Resistance hero, will enter France’s Pantheon mausoleum of revered historical figures next year, President Emmanuel Macron announced in a statement…

The story of Varian Fry, a US journalist who helped some 2,000 of Europe’s imperilled artists, writers and refugees escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, has inspired the new Netflix series “Transatlantic”. FRANCE 24…

Issued on: 27/01/2023 - 13:28 In this edition, we discover a little-known chapter of French history. In 1943, the Germans had occupied the southern French port city of…

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne's childhood was marked by the suicide of her father in 1972, when she was just 11 years old. Joseph Borne, whose original name was Bornstein, was a Jewish resistance fighter of…

Issued on: 08/05/2022 - 13:21 French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marked the anniversary of the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, overshadowed this…

Issued on: 30/11/2021 - 16:44 The American-born dancer, singer, actress and civil rights activist Josephine Baker becomes the first Black woman to enter France’s Panthéon mausoleum…

Issued on: 11/11/2021 - 14:19 President Emmanuel Macron led tributes on Thursday to the last French Resistance fighter from World War II who died last month and will be buried with a…

Issued on: 15/10/2021 - 21:14 President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Friday to the last surviving member of an order honouring heroes of France's liberation during World War Two …

A page of history has turned as the last surviving member of France's most distinguished group of World War II Resistance heroes, known as the Order of Liberation, has died at the age of 101.…

American-born French dancer Joséphine Baker will be inducted into the Panthéon, an honour reserved for France’s national heroes, on November 30. The move recognises her courage in actively resisting Nazi Germany during…