Nazi victim ‘Mr X’ identified 79 years after French village shooting A tragic mystery has been solved - and an elegantly dressed stranger can be properly remembered
President Macron pays tribute to Resistance leader Jean Moulin The president is going to the prison where the well-known French hero was tortured
news Last surviving French resistance fighter deported in WW2 dies aged 96 Jacques Bergez was deported to Buchenwald aged 18 in 1944 after being held in the French transit camp Royallieu in Compiègne
Resistance fighter who forgave fiance's torturer dies Noëlla Rouget successfully pleaded with President de Gaulle to commute the death penalty of the notorious collaborator who had her deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp
Six-year-old French Resistance fighter named on memorial Marcel Pinte, thought to be France’s youngest Resistance fighter, will have his name inscribed on war memorial today
WW2 French liberation hero Pierre Simonet dies aged 99 Mr Simonet was one of three remaining soldiers decorated by General Charles de Gaulle for their role in the liberation of France.
Hero of French Resistance dies, aged 103 Yvette Lundy helped hundreds escape Occupied France, and survived a Nazi concentration camp
Village fighters captured 1,000 Nazi soldiers A monument outside Anduze in the Languedoc commemorates an incredible story of wartime bravery. Readers Liz Cowley and Donough O’Brien tell the story of how a group of 40 French Resistance fighters and Spanish guerrillas forced a 1,000-strong column of German soldiers to surrender
Presidents honour Resistance fighters at battle site Macron and Sarkozy mark 75th anniversary of the Battle of Glières
‘Don’t call me Manu’: Macron corrects boy in crowd President Emmanuel Macron has chided a collège -age student to “call me Mr President”, after the boy addressed the head of state as “Manu” during this year’s June 18 commemorations.
Radio Londres kept us going in the war The last surviving presenter of Radio Londres, the Free French BBC station during the Second World War, has died and Oliver Rowland speaks to a surviving Resistance fighter on the support broadcasts gave