The square outside Notre-Dame Cathedral, usually empty early on a Saturday morning, filled with hundreds of policemen on August 19, 1944, all of them converging on the fortress-like Prefecture of ...

Paris celebrates 70 years since liberation Surviving veterans remember the day when France wiped off the shame of years of occupation and Vichy collaboration with Nazis ...

Brasserie du Parc will be reliving the heady days of 1944 with a Liberation de Paris Party. Walk through a tasting gallery of French wine and spirits. Listen to live music sounding altogether ...

In “Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation,” Patrick Bishop tells the stories of the individuals who lived through the four years of occupation, from German soldiers to French ...

BBC Paris correspondent Allan Little asks what role the Allies played in the liberation of Paris, sixty years on from the moment which restored French national pride.

FRANCE 24 tells the story of ten of these fallen heroes who died to free Paris. Click on the image below to access our interactive map.

The liberation of Paris, by French troops, allowed France to "wipe out the shame and humiliation" of the years of occupation after 1940, said historian Christine Levisse-Touze, but the Allied high ...

"Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself. It was August 25, 1944, and after six days of skirmishes between French Resistance fighters and a ...

While hardly a great victory and followed by a nasty vengeance against collaborators, Paris’s liberation produced ecstatic delight throughout the West, making it one of the few feel-good stories ...

During World War II, the Liberation of Paris Saved the French Capital From Destruction Adolf Hitler wanted Paris razed. Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted his troops to stay out of the city. In August ...