The Latest Breaking News from Verdun

Tour de France 2028 to begin in Reims, France, with early June start due to LA Olympics

Stages set to start or finish in Reims, Charleville Méziers, Épernay, Verdun, Metz and Thionville in Grand Est

Cycling Weekly · May 18

Petain tribute comments raise 'revisionist' storm in France

A senior French official said Saturday he would take legal action over comments made following a tribute to Philippe Petain, France's wartime head of state convicted of treason after World War II.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 16, 2025

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 · Feb 19, 2023