French President Emmanuel Macron will on Saturday visit Bormes-les-Mimosas, a town on the French Riviera, to commemorate its liberation 80 years ago. The ceremony is part of a series of events marking the "southern French D-Day", which began on 15 August.
The landings in Provence, often overshadowed by the Normandy landings two months earlier, were crucial to the final stages of World War II in Europe.
