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The liberation of Paris

General de Gaulle walks through the streets of liberated Paris, 24 August 1944. Copyright IWM - BU 1

The “Battle of the Hedgerows”

American GIs advance through a gap in the hedge made by a Rhino tank. Normandy, June/July 1944 Copyright US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The Lafayette Escadrille

OPEX

©Ecpad

?French overseas operations

Following a period of two major overlapping commemorative cycles (the WWI centenary and the 70th anniversary of WWII), 2017 is an important year for laying the foundations of remembrance of the French soldiers who have participated in overseas operations.

Rebuilding the French Army (1943-1945)

The French Expeditionary Corps embarks at Oran, Algeria, 21 November 1943.

Embarquement à Oran du Corps expéditionnaire français (CEF), 21 novembre 1943. © ECPAD, photographe inconnu. Réf. : TERRE 125-2659

The military capability, the political instrument and operational control

By Tristan Lecoq

Inspector-General of National Education
Associate lecturer in contemporary history
at Paris-Sorbonne University

French civilian victims of the Battle of Normandy

Saint-Lô, 95% destroyed after the bombardments of 1944, called the Capital of Ruins. Source: Basse-Normandie Regional Council / National Archives USA

World War II, unlike World War I, was very deadly for civilians. In France, nearly 400,000 civilians were killed between 1939 and 1945.

Operation “1000 Trees for Cemeteries”

Vignemont National Cemetery (Oise department) - Source : MINDEF/SGA/DMPA-ONACVG

Printemps 1918 : les offensives allemandes

Brothers in arms on Mount Kemmel: a French colonel and two English colonels surrounded by officers from their regiments

Les quatorze points de Wilson (8 janvier 1918)

General Pershing landing in Boulogne from the freighter

First World War

L'archiduc François-Ferdinand et la duchesse de Hohenberg dont l'assassinat va déclencher l'entrée en guerre des grandes puissances européennes

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