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 ...

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, ...

The memorial for former French Minister of War Philippe Pétain, accused of being a Nazi collaborator, in New York City on January 27, 2023 - Copyright AFP Michal ...

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 ...

CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday it was "legitimate" to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Petain, who led the French army to victory in World War ...

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 ...

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 ...

A motorcade of eight cars crossed the Swiss frontier from the collapsing Third Reich. A very old Frenchman, wearing a black coat and a grey fedora, was the chief passenger. Beside him sat his worried ...

A Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia Is Fundamentally Unfunny — and Unfree The Paper, a Counter-Government Sitcom Colorado Gender Ideology Wages War on Religious Freedom In 1916, Marshal Philippe Pétain, ...

Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism. By Elisabeth Zerofsky Philippe Pétain, who led France to victory in World ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.