Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy, and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker, will be honored with a distinction never before done in French history. Last Tuesday, President ...

PARIS (AP) — The tomb of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who was known for defending human rights and was inducted into the country’s Panthéon national monument Thursday, was ...

PARIS (AP) — France is honoring four people who resisted the Nazis during World War II by inducting them into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, in a rare and highly symbolic ceremony aimed at uniting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A police officer carries a barricade by the gravesite at Bagneux cemetery, after the grave of former French justice minister ...

This massive stone dome conceals one of the most turbulent histories of the capital. Originally built to serve as Paris’s ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave ...

Visitors look at the Nazi propaganda poster of Missak Manouchian and his Resistance network, exhibited at the Shoah memorial, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) PARIS (AFP) — A ...

View of the exhibition 'Ombre est lumière. Mémoires des lieux' by Nicolas Daubanes, at the Panthéon, Paris, November 2025. BENJAMIN GAVAUDO/CMN/ADAGP, PARIS "An Artist, a Monument," a program by ...

PARIS (Reuters) -The grave of former French justice minister Robert Badinter was desecrated on Thursday, hours before President Emmanuel Macron is set to dedicate a cenotaph in his memory in a Paris ...