As the bodies of the dead are laid to rest on earth and their spirits ascend to be welcomed by their Maker in heaven, the City of Light is being liberated from terrorists in November 2015 as it was ...

PARIS -- Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday. Firefighters on Sunday ...

This month Paris will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its escape from German occupation. For the citizens of that city, this event has a deeper, more sentimental meaning than even D-Day. Yet, as ...

The Germans had not yet been driven out of France [TIME told its readers]. Dunkirk had not yet fallen. The Gaullist government had not yet been recognized. But an old Parisian institution (and big ...

2004-08-22 04:00:00 PDT Paris-- No, this is not another story about the 60th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. This is about another 60th anniversary -- the anniversary of the day Ernest ...

A sharp and lurid picture of wartime Paris—a city dancing with false gaiety on a rumbling volcano—reached the U.S. last week. It came from the New York Times’ former Paris fashion correspondent, ...

On the morning of 19 August 1944, a 28-year-old Frenchman called Georges Loiseleur hurried down to the street from his flat on the Quai des Grands-Augustins. Paris was abuzz. A short distance away, he ...

Many Americans share a common impression of what happened to Paris during World War II, after Hitler’s troops crushed France’s defenses in 1940 and seized the City of Light. In their minds, the Nazis ...

As the Germans descended on Paris in June 1940, Jean Texcier, who worked for France’s Ministry of Trade, printed some advice for Parisians on how to behave toward the occupiers. He put the handbills ...

During a summer darkened by conflict in the Middle East, Ukraine and parts of Africa, the world is remembering this week a more joyous event: the Liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation 70 years ago.

Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt. It was August 20, 1944, the day after ...