From the Munich conference until the Second World War

29 septembre 1938. Signature des accords de Munich - Neville Chamberlain, Premier ministre de Grande-Bretagne; Edouard Daladier, président du Conseil français, le chancelier Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini et le comte Ciano, ministre des affaires étrangères

Verdun : les évolutions de la mémoire d'une bataille symbolique

La ligne de démarcation

The demarcation line, a French control post - 1941

Les combats de la Loire Juin 1940

One of the bridges at Gennes after their destruction on the 19th June 1940

Le Vaillant and his peers

Homing pigeons, a variety of common domestic pigeons. Public domain.

Le Vaillant and his peers

Homing pigeons, the war's liaison officers

Année 1917 : le tournant

The unification of the Resistance

On the 27th January 1943, Henri Frenay, the leader of ”Combat”, Emmanuel d'Astier
de la Vigerie, the leader of ”Libération Sud” and Jean-Pierre Levy, the leader of
”Franc-Tireur”, signed the official document signifying the birth of the ”United
Résistance Movements” (MUR). Then there was the creation of the National
Council for the Résistance (CNR) which met on the 27th May 1943
in rue du Four in Paris.

History of the Senegalese tirailleurs

12 January 1918. The flag of the 43rd Battalion of Senegalese Tirailleurs, decorated with the fourragère. Source: L’album de la guerre 1914-1919. © L’illustration

Liberation of the Lorient Pocket

A la reddition. Source : DMPA/SHD

June 6, 1944, the Allies land on the Normandy coast. Day after day, they advance further into Normandy with the German lines being breached at Avranches on 30 and 31 July 1944. In early August, the Brittany route was opened. At the beginning of autumn 1944, with the exception of Alsace and the Atlantic pockets, the entire French territory is fully liberated.

L'internement : La France des camps (1938-1946)

The camp de Drancy. The arrival of a convoy