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New World War I museum opens near Paris
12/05/2012 - Culture in France

New World War I museum opens near Paris

War tourism is big business in France.

09/05/2012

French press review 9 May 2012

No prizes for guessing that this morning's front pages are dominated by the president-elect, François Hollande, and the man he will replace later this month, Nicolas Sarkozy.

08/05/2012 - France

French rivals Sarkozy and Hollande side by side for VE day ceremony

Less than a week after a bitter televised debate, France’s new socialist president Francois Hollande stood shoulder-to-shoulder with outgoing president Nicolas Sarkozy to lay a wreath at the ...

Gallipoli - the débacle whose echoes still sound
27/04/2012 - International report

Gallipoli - the débacle whose echoes still sound

This week marks the 97th anniversary of World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in which British and French forces invaded Turkey in a disastrously unsuccessful attempt to open a second front against ...

25/03/2012

European press review

Europe's papers have been dominated by the rampage by a gunmen in southern France, and that's where we begin this week.

19/03/2012 - France

British military plotted to arm pro-Nazi WWII Vichy French regime, new documents reveal

Newly-revealed documents from World War II show that British military chiefs secretly approved plans to arm the Vichy French regime and intended to hide the plot from then Prime Minister Winston ...

15/02/2012 - France - Germany

Uproar after French MP denies gays deported from Nazi-occupied France

Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling right-wing UMP party has taken action against one of its MPs who denied that homosexuals were deported from France during World War II.

04/02/2012 - France - Turkey

Turkey may have banned dead French soldiers' flight over Armenian genocide law

Turkey may have banned the flight repatriating the bodies of four French soldiers killed in Afghanistan from crossing its air space in retaliation for the Armenian genocide bill recently passed by ...

16/01/2012 - France

The business of war tourism

War tourism is big business in France. Over six million people visited battle sites, memorials and museums devoted to the first and second world wars in France in 2010.

New World War I museum opens near Paris
15/01/2012 - Culture in France

New World War I museum opens near Paris

War tourism is big business in France.

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