France’s president has paid homage to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

A member of the French rowing team at the 1948 Olympic Games, Lebranchu was also a former member of the Resistance. During the war, Lebranchu refused to take part in the Obligatory Labour Service and joined the Resistance in south-eastern France.

In this edition of Entre Nous, we discuss how some French people are increasingly trying to abstain from alcohol for the entire month of January. However, this Dry January trend has encountered resistance from the nation's wine sector and the state.

PARIS — France’s President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108. Callerot, who was among the last ...

In this edition of Entre Nous, we discuss how some French people are increasingly trying to abstain from alcohol for the entire month of January. However, this Dry January trend has encountered

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PARIS (AP) — France’s President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108. Callerot, who was among the last ...

The French government is putting the final touches on a reformed sex education syllabus for schools, with some topics, notably around gender identity, causing resistance among conservative groups. Such discussions have run into resistance from conservative associations and politicians who argue that gender theory has no place in schools,

Although concentration camp survivors followed different trajectories and displayed different levels of resilience, four main survivor profiles emerge.

When satire targets marginalized groups, it risks reinforcing harmful stereotypes rather than challenging them.

The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.

France will keep fighting to obtain the release of the two French-Israeli nationals held by Hamas, foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told BFM TV on Monday.