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The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. ' the militia ' ; French pronunciation: [milis] ), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II .
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
France was one of the largest military powers to come under occupation as part of the Western Front in World War II.The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany.
French Chouans! Philippe de Broca: Adventure, History, War. Based on a novel Les Chouans. Chouannerie: 1989 French Italy West Germany Canada United Kingdom The French Revolution: La Révolution française: Robert Enrico Richard T. Heffron: Drama, History, Thriller, War. 1989 France The Austrian: L'Autrichienne: Pierre Granier-Deferre: Biography ...
Berthier Mle 1907/15 M16 rifle. Many late world war I era French rifles such as this Berthier rifle and other late World War I variant of Berthier and Lebel rifles were still in heavy use by French forces in World War II due to newer French rifles the MAS-36 and MAS-40(not in production) not being available in sufficient quantities for the French military.
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Resistance is a French television period drama series in six 52-minute episodes, first broadcast (as Résistance) on TF1 in France in May 2014 and on More4 in the UK in August 2015. It was broadcast and streamed on PBS in the US from January 2020. The mini-series is directed by Miguel Courtois, David Delrieux and Alain Goldman
The French Community in 1959.. Following the accession to independence of its African colonies beginning in 1959, [1] France continued to maintain a sphere of influence over the new countries, which was critical to then President Charles de Gaulle's vision of France as a global power (or grandeur in French) and as a bulwark to British and American influence in a post-colonial world.