Resistance members began to gather on the Vercors plateau from 1942 and came to number some 4,000 people. They were mostly French but also included about 50 Senegalese infantrymen and 30 Polish ...

It was also a time when some French people did not love France." Resistance members began to gather on the Vercors plateau from 1942 and came to number some 4,000 people. They were mostly French ...

Many of them were of African origin but who they were and why they decided to join the French Resistance has only recently begun to come to light. Issued on: 17/04/2024 - 20:21 7 min ...

Another proposal, to cancel the French citizenship of terrorists with dual nationality, was subsequently abandoned. The state of emergency is shaping the emerging state of France. I stepped up. She ...

Resistance members in early July even declared the Free Republic of Vercors, seen today as a link to the modern French republic. But the German army attack, involving some 10,000 soldiers, in July ...

Members of the resistance used the Vercors Plateau as a refuge after the occupation of France from 1940, receiving airdrops from the Allies and even occasional visits by British agents with the ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hailed the heroism of members of the World War II Resistance based on a remote Alpine plateau, but also remembered the "errors" of French collaborationist ...