Over the past six years, Paris has done more than almost any city in the world to take space back from cars. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has opened linear parks in the old highways along the Seine ...

To celebrate the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, the capital has prepared a week of intense commemorations on August 24 ...

Pierre Antoine Supported by By Vivian Song The tunnel to the subterranean bunker that played a pivotal role in the liberation of Paris is long and narrow, each step down deceptively steep.

Such harsh choices lie at the heart of Paris ’44, Patrick Bishop’s fascinating account of the liberation of Paris. On April 28 1944, thousands of French people gathered in the city centre to ...

“Paris must not fall into the hands of the enemy,” Adolf Hitler told his top general in Paris, “or if it does, he must find there nothing but a field of ruins.” Public domain via Wikimedia ...

On 25 August 1944, after a week of strikes, barricades and street battles, the capital welcomed General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of France's provisional government in exile, after four years ...

The liberation of Paris on 24-25 August 1944 was a key moment in World War II, marking the end of Nazi occupation in the French capital. An uprising by the French Resistance on 19 August forced ...

during the ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of Paris liberation from Nazi occupation. Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Eighty years ago Parisians rose up against their German Nazi ...

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 ...

Patrick Bishop, acclaimed historian and author of bestsellers about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War (“Fighter Boys” and “Bomber Boys”), longtime foreign correspondent, and ...