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France inducts Resistance fighter, soldier, historian Marc Bloch into its Panthéon of greats

Eighty-two years after he was executed by Nazis, Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Panthéon on Tuesday to repose alongside such luminaries as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A professor in medieval history, Bloch fought for France in World War I and joined the Resistance in…

France 24

Friday essay: Gertrude Stein got famous lampooning celebrity culture – but not everyone got the joke

Today, modernist literary icon Gertrude Stein is famous for many reasons. The “autobiography” she wrote of her partner Alice B. Toklas: a gossipy, ironic tour of bohemian Paris, featuring memorable cameos by artist Henri Matisse, poet T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and others. Surviving Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish lesbian, somehow.…

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With this damning of Le Pen, France can be the ‘anti-Trump’. It’s a bold path others should follow

The far right leader is banned and disgraced. European leaders can seize this moment to show voters they will fight for them, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

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Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America

As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes – sparking comparisons to France’s collaborationist second world war regime

The Guardian - US

From the US to France, the far right swears it’s patriotic. But is it betraying our countries?

I’ve watched the rise of Trumpism and the National Rally – and the fake narratives about nationhood they peddle to voters, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

The Guardian - UK

On the brink of power: how France’s National Rally reinvented itself

Opponents say party is ‘political heir’ of Vichy regime, which collaborated with Nazis, amid efforts to halt its rise

The Guardian - UK

America on trial: the charges against Trump will decide the fate of a nation

The US has no precedents for a former president in the dock, but there are echoes of France’s pursuit of Marshal Pétain, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain review – a fallen hero in the dock

Julian Jackson’s meticulous, engaging history of the collaborator general and his downfall is a gripping study of dishonour and denial

The Guardian - UK

Why a far-right gang once tried to steal the corpse of France's Marshal Pétain

Fifty years ago today, a group of admirers of French Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Pétain spirited his coffin from the island where he died in prison and tried to bury him alongside fellow World War I heroes in Verdun. They failed.

Radio France Internationale

Vichy France’s ‘biggest stain’? The August 1942 roundup, 80 years on

Six weeks after the Vél d’Hiv roundup in Paris, the Vichy regime committed another unspeakable crime by arresting some 6,000 Jews in the non-occupied zone on August 26, 1942 – an event that remains little-known in France, 80 years on.

France 24

Those worrying about France’s far right should look closer to home

Letter: In the UK, the far right is already in power, writes Angèle David-Guillou in response to Owen Jones’s article on the state of French politics

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