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President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron toast during a State Dinner on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

French President visits New Orleans, Louisiana

By Sara Cline and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speech the industrial development laboratory at French drugmaker's vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur plant in Marcy-l'Etoile, near Lyon, central France, Tuesday, June 16, 2020.The visit comes after rival pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca this weekend announced a deal to supply 400 million vaccine doses to EU countries, including France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, Pool)

Macron marks appeal that gave birth to French Resistance

By DANICA KIRKA and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Thursday, Jan 23, 2020 file photo, from left, French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prince Charles attend the World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. Britain’s Prince Charles will host French President Emmanuel Macron for a special celebration marking the 80th anniversary of Gen. Charles De Gaulle’s defiant appeal to the French people to resist the Nazis during World War II. Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, will receive Macron at his Clarence House home with a Guard of Honor formed by Number 7 Company of the Coldstream Guards and accompanied the Band of the Coldstream Guards on Thursday, June 18, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Prince Charles to host Macron to mark De Gaulle WWII appeal

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

A satiric carnival float depicting the Brexit and British members of Parliament as skeletons, is watched by revellers during a preview in a hall in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The traditional carnival parades on Rosemonday make fun of politics and are watched by hundreds of thousands in the streets of Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Doomsday predictions on Brexit were wrong

By Kevin Cochrane

French President Emmanuel Macron,left, greets British Prime Minister Theresa May before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris Tuesday, April 9, 2019. A top official at the French presidency says France doesn't rule out granting a further delay to Brexit, just before a planned meeting between Prime minister Theresa May and President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Macron plays hardball on Brexit, but won’t follow De Gaulle

By PAN PYLAS and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance’

By Joseph C. Goulden

West Bridgewater mural is a blast from the past

By JENNIFER BRAY - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Playing war

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Horror of Love’

By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The General’

By Aram Bakshian Jr. - Special to The Washington Times

A traveler walks Feb. 7, 2012, next to an information board at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France. (Associated Press)

French strike grounds hundreds of flights

By Nicolas Garriga - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘De Gaulle’

By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France’

By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times

Gunmen surrounded the home of Guinean President Alpha Conde overnight Tuesday and pounded his bedroom with rockets, throwing into doubt the stability of the country's first democratically elected government. Mr. Conde was in another part of the home and was not injured. (Associated Press)

Guinean president survives assassination attempt

By Boubacar Diallo and Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

Illustration: American funk by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

BLANKLEY: The great American funk

By Tony Blankley - The Washington Times

Sarkozy marks de Gaulle’s famed wartime appeal

By David Stringer - Associated Press

Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial on embezzlement charges stemming from his tenure as mayor of Paris. (Associated Press)

France’s Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial

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