The French Resistance ( French ; La Résistance française ) is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II.

Inevitably, there is the question of how many were active in the Résistance.

In this context, it is customary to distinguish the various organizations of the French Résistance as movements or networks.

In determining the role of the French Résistance during the German Occupation, or addressing its military importance alongside the Allied Forces during the liberation of France, it is difficult to give a direct answer.

The Vichy Regime's prejudicial policies had discredited traditional conservatism in France by the end of the war, but following the liberation many former Pétainistes became critical of the official résistancialisme, using expressions such as " la mythe de la Résistance " ( the myth of the Résistance ), with one concluding, " The ' Gaullist ' régime is therefore built on a fundamental lie.

He is best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment, where he was a four time World Tag Team Champion while a part of La Résistance.

Joins the underground army of the French Résistance in Grenoble, is in charge of resupplying camps in the mountains.

La Résistance is a heel professional wrestling tag team and former stable who performed for World Wrestling Entertainment.

The RCK is also a member of the RSRA ( Réseau Supporter de Résistance Antiraciste ), an anti-racism group composed of a network of other supporter groups in French football.

It is served by local bus and the Lyon airport coach, which stops at the Place de la Résistance just outside the site.

Meximieux is one of the 17 French cities to be awarded with the medal of resistance ( Médaille de la Résistance ).

" Nouvelle Résistance was also a successor to Jean-François Thiriart's Jeune Europe neo-Nazi Europeanist movement of the 1960s, which had participated in the National Party of Europe, along with Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, Otto Strasser and others.

Résistance cells were small groups of armed men and women ( called the Maquis in rural areas ), who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines.

The Résistance also planned, coordinated, and executed acts of sabotage on the electrical power grid, transportation facilities, and telecommunications networks.

General Eisenhower also estimated the value of the Résistance to have been equal to ten to fifteen divisions at the time of the landings.

A French-language monthly, Résistance !, was also published by the IS and claimed a circulation of 300, most of it in Quebec.

Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught but not deported because of her young age.

For his wartime service, the French posthumously awarded him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and the Officer's Médaille de la Résistance, also appointing him a Companion of the Ordre de la Libération.

He also received the Médaille de la Résistance for his participation in the Liberation of Paris in 1944 and Légion d ' honneur in 1990 by François Mitterrand.

The newspaper also has a militant wing, the Réseau de Résistance du Québécois.

In the immediate post-war years, French cinema produced a number of films that portrayed a France broadly present in the Résistance.

Eventually, leaders of all of these separate and fragmented Résistance organizations were gathered and coordinated by Jean Moulin, under the auspices of the National Council of Resistance ( CNR ), De Gaulle's formal link to the irregulars throughout occupied France.

Bénouville and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade became députés in the French parliament after the war ; François Mitterrand moved towards the left and joined the Résistance, Henri Frenay evolved towards European socialism, and Daniel Cordier, whose family had supported Maurras for three generations, abandoned his views in favor of the ideology of the republican, Jean Moulin.

The majority of resistance movements in France were unified after Jean Moulin's formation of the Conseil National de la Résistance ( CNR ) in May 1943.

In 1943 his group participated in the forming of the Conseil National de la Résistance of Jean Moulin but Frenay refused a seat due to a disagreement over the admission of political parties to the Counseil.

It was a member of the Conseil national de la Résistance ( CNR ), which federated, under Jean Moulin's authority, various Resistance movements, beginning in the middle of 1943.

In 1942 d ' Astier met with Jean Moulin to discuss about unification of the Resistance and eventually joined forces into the Conseil National de la Résistance ( CNR, National Council of Resistance ).

This high school was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance in recognition of the wartime conduct of its teachers and pupils, a unique case among all schools in France.

He left London on 21 March 1943 with orders to form the Conseil national de la Résistance ( CNR ), a difficult task since the five resistance movements involved ( beside the three already in the M. U. R.

* Les Cahiers Français, La part de la Résistance Française dans les évènements d ' Afrique du Nord ( Official reports of French Resistance Group leaders who seized Algiers on 8 November 1942, to allow allied landing ), Commissariat à l ' Information of Free French Comité National, London, Aug. 1943.

In early 1943, the Vichy authorities established a paramilitary group, the Milice ( militia ), to combat the Résistance.

Mouvements Unis de la Résistance ( Unified Movements of the Resistance, MUR ) was a French Résistance organization, resulting from the regrouping of three major Résistance movements (" Combat ", " Franc-Tireur ", and " Libération-Sud ") in January 1943.

Later in 1943, the BCRA and the United Movements of Résistance merged their intelligence networks.

From spring 1943, German and Austrian anti-fascists, who had fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, fought in Lozère and in the Cévennes alongside the French Résistance in the Francs-tireurs et Partisans.

On March 3, 1943, representatives of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party, who had taken refuge in France, signed the " Pact of Lyon ", which began their participation in the Résistance.

The liberation of Corsica in September 1943, a clear demonstration of the strength of a communist insurgency, was accomplished by the FTP, an effective force not yet integrated into the Secret Army and not involved with General Henri Giraud, the Free French, or the political unification of the Résistance.

The 30 September 1943 issue of the Résistance newspaper, Défense de la France

Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, a significant example of Résistance strength was displayed, when the Corsican Résistance, with the assistance of the Free French, began a movement which liberated the island from General Albert Kesselring's remaining German forces.

The film was inspired by Joseph Kessel's 1943 book, as well as Melville's own experiences, as he had fought in the Résistance and participated in Operation Dragoon.

The French Médaille de la Résistance ( Medal of the Resistance ) was established by General Charles de Gaulle on 9 February 1943 " to recognise the remarkable acts of faith and of courage that, in France, in the empire and abroad, have contributed to the resistance of the French people against the enemy and against its accomplices since June 18 1940 ".

After the German invasion of the free zone in November 1942, Debré's political pétainisme disappeared, and in February 1943 he became involved in the French Resistance, joining the network Ceux de la Résistance ( CDLR ).