Effort to honor Resistance hero debated in France
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PARIS - A Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis was honored yesterday in schools across France, although some teachers defied an order by President Nicolas Sarkozy to have his final letter read aloud, saying the government was trying to twist history into propaganda.
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A television documentary that portrays Nicolas Sarkozy as a bold negotiator during a hostage crisis 14 years ago has fuelled a debate about the French president's domination of television and print media.
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French President Jacques Chirac's announcement that he will leave frontline politics brought no end to the controversy over his record and legacy on Monday.
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A film about former French President Francois Mitterrand and another about a German resistance fighter executed by the Nazis highlight a trend for filmmakers to use biographies to tell larger stories.
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With French and American flags, vintage military vehicles and heartfelt memories, Paris on Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of its liberation from the occupying Nazis &#151; the day the French capital recovered its honor after four years of hardship and shame.
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The French president defends his plan to make pupils honour Jewish child victims of the Holocaust amid uproar.
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Eastwood's wife and children accompanied him at the ceremony Hollywood star Clint Eastwood has been presented with the highest civilian distinction in France, Legion d'honneur, at a ceremony in Paris.Comment
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President Jacques Chirac passed his 72nd birthday yesterday locked in a struggle to maintain his relevance in the face of an intraparty challenge and continuing friction with the world&#39;s only superpower.
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Les Indigenes shows how North African soldiers were marginalised French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the pensions of foreign soldiers who fought in the French army are to be brought into line ...Comment
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A television documentary that portrays  Nicolas Sarkozy as a bold negotiator during a hostage crisis 14  years ago has fuelled a debate about the French president&#39;s  domination of television and print media.
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Franceâs president touched off protests with a plan to have students learn the life stories of children the Nazis killed.
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Paris' new memorial to the Holocaust was dedicated Tuesday, with the French president bowing before the wall inscribed with the names of 76,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps from France.
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VIENNA -- Paying tribute to a key figure in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, Austria's president yesterday unveiled a plaque that praised an Austrian officer executed by the Nazis as a symbol of resistance to the German dictator.
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A prominent French political figure who ordered hundreds of Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II will be buried wearing his Legion of Honor medal, his lawyer said Sunday, even though the deceased man ...Comment
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AVRICOURT, FRANCE - An anti-nuclear protester was killed in France Sunday when his leg was cut off by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany.
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France's conservative government is vowing not to buckle under pressure from the worst strikes for two years, but a tough battle is brewing after a week of protests which have strengthened the unions' resolve.
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Talks are to take place to save one of France's best-known papers,  the irreverent left-wing daily Liberation.