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France is a country with which almost every traveller has a relationship. Many dream of its joie de vivre shown by the countless cafés, picturesque villages...

During World War II, the Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle took control over the colonies from pro-fascist Vichy France one by one, using...

Hauts-de-France (Upper France) (Picard: Heuts-d'Franche) is the northernmost region of France, located to the north of the French capital Paris and situated...

architecture. The European theatre included North Africa; see World War II in Africa. After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to give up...

Africa during World War II. With the fall of France in June 1940, the French colonies in Africa formally became part of Vichy France, a puppet state of Germany...

under English rule from 1152 when Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry II; France only regained it in 1451. Whaling and later cod-fishing were important...

would remain so for almost two centuries. After the Napoleonic Wars, beach holidays had become a thing in France, first among veterans from the Grande Armée...

Pacific War was a theatre of World War II including East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania, separate from World War II in Europe. Western accounts generally...

Napoleon III of France into ill-advised military adventures in Italy (helping that country to become unified under Victor Emanuel II, the first "King...

Pacific Ocean. The Western Front, running through Belgium and Northeastern France, was particularly destructive. Some called it "the war to end all wars"...

Colmar is a city in Alsace, France. It was the last town in France to be liberated during World War II in Europe, on February 2, 1945. Alsace has changed...

Peninsula in Normandy, France. Cherbourg is located near the D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed in 1944 during World War II. The town was liberated...

city in the Alsace region, seized from France in 1871, and returned to France after Germany's defeat in World War I. However, the architecture in the old...

departments of Normandy, France. They were the landing places for the Allied invasion of western Europe during World War II. An excellent time to visit...

most beautiful cities in France, and its historic buildings and byways were not heavily damaged by bombing in World War II and are largely intact. The...

Normandy (French: Normandie, Norman: Normaundie) is a region of northern France, bordering the English Channel. Once the centre of a powerful medieval...

a campaign of deportation, forced labour and mass murder during World War II, carried out by Germany's Nazi regime and several other Axis states. Among...

of the Dunkirk Evacuation during World War II, when, over eight days, a fleet of British, Canadian and French Navy and a huge assortment of civilian vessels...

the rail network during the 1850s and 1860s. After winning a war against Austria and another against France, the German Empire was founded—without Austria—in...

Oradour-sur-Glane is a ghost town in France, razed during World War II. Oradour-sur-Glane was a large town near Limoges, which was razed to the ground...