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Rose Valland (1898–1980), French art historian and museum curator of Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume; Marina Vega (1923–2011), Spanish spy for French Resistance; Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French philologist and anthropologist; Berthe Vicogne-Fraser (1894–1956)
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's French education curriculum commemorates Moulin as a symbol of the French resistance and a model of civic virtue, moral rectitude and patriotism. As of 2015, Jean Moulin was the fifth most popular name for a French school, [ 47 ] and as of 2016 his is the third most popular French street name [ 48 ] of which 98 percent are male. [ 48 ]
Referring to the contribution of the Spanish Maquis to the French resistance movement, Martha Gellhorn wrote in The Undefeated (1945): . During the German occupation of France, the Spanish Maquis engineered more than four hundred railway sabotages, destroyed fifty-eight locomotives, dynamited thirty-five railway bridges, cut one hundred and fifty telephone lines, attacked twenty factories ...
The Dos de Mayo was among the few spontaneous popular uprisings of the war, launched without significant fore-planning, funding, or leadership by government elites. While elements within the Spanish military and state bureaucracy did envision military action to expel the French from the country, Murat's hold on Madrid was held to be unassailable in the short term.
Generals Eisenhower and Bradley with a young member of the French resistance during the liberation of Lower Normandy in summer 1944. The French Resistance was a decentralized network of small cells of fighters with the tacit or overt support of many French civilians. The various resistance groups by 1944 had an estimated 100,000 members in ...
French minister, Cardinal Richelieu, was the architect of much of France's foreign policy during this time. Roicroi, the last tercio, portraying infantry of a battered Spanish tercio at the 1643 Battle of Rocroi. Corresponding to the Thirty Years' War was the War of the Mantuan Succession, which erupted in 1628.
The second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), [5] was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain.