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Paris celebrates the 80th anniversary of its liberation from the Nazis on Sunday with a ceremony presided over by French President Emmanuel Macron and mayor Anne Hidalgo. A military parade will follow the path of the second armoured division, which entered Paris from the south in 1944, and was made up of mostly Spanish Republicans. FRANCE 24’s Karim Yahiaoui met some of their family members.
A French environmental group has found artillery shells dating back to World Wars I and II and even the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in a lake in […]
A pilot, writer and illustrator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry penned “The Little Prince”, which has been translated into nearly 600 languages. The Frenchman disappeared 80 years […]
The Cinémathèque Française in Paris says it has cancelled a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial classic, citing “potential security risks”, after women’s rights activists accused […]