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The Old Guard (French: Vieille Garde) were the veteran elements of the Emperor Napoleon's Imperial Guard. As such it was the most prestigious formation in Napoleon's Grande Armée. [1][2] French soldiers often referred to Napoleon's Old Guard as "the Immortals". [3][4] Famously devoted to the Emperor, [5] who even referred to them as "my ...
1 e Régiment Etranger du Génie (1st Foreign Engineer Regiment), 6e Brigade Légère Blindée (6th Light Armoured Brigade) - Laudun. DINOPS Teams. 2 e Régiment Etranger du Génie (2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment), 27e Brigade d'Infanterie de Montagne (27th Mountain Infantry Brigade) - Saint-Christol. DINOPS Teams.
The Musée de l'Armée (French: [myze də laʁme]; "Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is served by Paris Métro stations Invalides, Varenne and La Tour-Maubourg. The Musée de l'Armée was created in 1905 with the merger of the Musée d'Artillerie and the Musée ...
French Resistance museums and memorials commemorate people and events associated with the French movements, collectively known as the French Resistance (French: La Résistance) that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War. The following is a list of this type of ...
Casemate de Marckolsheim Sud. Mémorial de Caen. Mémorial de la Shoah. Ouvrage Michelsberg. Fortress of Mimoyecques. Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation à Grenoble. Musée des Blindés. Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin. Musée Pierre-Jost.
The French Forces of the Interior (FFI; French: Forces françaises de l'Intérieur) were French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II. Charles de Gaulle used it as a formal name for the resistance fighters. The change in designation of these groups to FFI occurred as France's status changed from that of an occupied nation to ...
The museum is dedicated to the Ordre de la Libération, France's second national order after the Légion d'honneur, which was created in 1940 by General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces. In 1967 de Gaulle moved the Order of the Liberation into Les Invalides. The museum contains three galleries and six rooms, with a total area ...
Military history of France during World War II. Appearance. From 1939 to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied the north and west of French territory and a collaborationist régime under Philippe Pétain established itself in ...