Chaque semaine, dans sa chronique « Un jour, une histoire », Hervé Chabaud revient sur un événement marquant de l’Histoire.

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine wants New York City to remove the names of Nazi collaborators Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval from the Canyon of Heroes.

I n 1916, Marshal Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun, had become the personification of a France that would never submit to German aggression. In 1940, he symbolized the France that did ...

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 ...

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, but reiterated praise ...

News about Philippe Petain. Commentary and archival information about Philippe Petain from The New York Times.

Henri Philippe Petain, Hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and Chief of State of Vichyfrance, was home again. It was his 89th birthday. With German permission, through the Swiss Government, the ...

French far-right politician Eric Zemmour was ordered Wednesday to pay a fine of 10,000 euros ($10,800) for contesting crimes against humanity by saying Nazi collaborator Philippe Petain had "saved ...

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 One's Battle of Verdun but decades later ...

Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician.

The granite plaques for Vichy leaders Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval were embedded in the “Canyon of Heroes” sidewalk, New York’s answer to Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame,” in 2004.

Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s regime ruled the unoccupied south while cooperating with Nazi ...