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‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026

Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3

France inducts Resistance fighter, soldier, historian Marc Bloch into its Panthéon of greats

Eighty-two years after he was executed by Nazis, Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Panthéon on Tuesday to repose alongside such luminaries as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A professor in medieval history, Bloch fought for France in World War I and joined the Resistance in…

France 24 · Jun 23

Friday essay: Gertrude Stein got famous lampooning celebrity culture – but not everyone got the joke

Today, modernist literary icon Gertrude Stein is famous for many reasons. The “autobiography” she wrote of her partner Alice B. Toklas: a gossipy, ironic tour of bohemian Paris, featuring memorable cameos by artist Henri Matisse, poet T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and others. Surviving Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish lesbian, somehow.…

The Conversation · Sep 11, 2025

America on trial: the charges against Trump will decide the fate of a nation

The US has no precedents for a former president in the dock, but there are echoes of France’s pursuit of Marshal Pétain, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2023

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain review – a fallen hero in the dock

Julian Jackson’s meticulous, engaging history of the collaborator general and his downfall is a gripping study of dishonour and denial

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2023

Why a far-right gang once tried to steal the corpse of France's Marshal Pétain

Fifty years ago today, a group of admirers of French Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Pétain spirited his coffin from the island where he died in prison and tried to bury him alongside fellow World War I heroes in Verdun. They failed.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 19, 2023

Vichy France’s ‘biggest stain’? The August 1942 roundup, 80 years on

Six weeks after the Vél d’Hiv roundup in Paris, the Vichy regime committed another unspeakable crime by arresting some 6,000 Jews in the non-occupied zone on August 26, 1942 – an event that remains little-known in France, 80 years on.

France 24 · Aug 26, 2022

Those worrying about France’s far right should look closer to home

Letter: In the UK, the far right is already in power, writes Angèle David-Guillou in response to Owen Jones’s article on the state of French politics

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2022