Survivor Pierette Pierrot, 88, a French resistance fighter captured in 1944, came with her son to the ceremonies.
Her granddaughter, Madeleine, who fought in the French Resistance, was sent to Auschwitz.
He joined the French resistance to combat Nazism, editing an underground newspaper, Combat.
During World War II, for instance, some sections became hideouts for French Resistance fighters, while other areas were converted by German soldiers into bunkers.
In 1944, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a coded message intended to warn the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
She worked for British Special Operations and was parachuted into France in April 1944 before D-Day to deliver weapons to French Resistance fighters.
Just nine minutes after Messi's introduction, Barcelona was level as the French resistance wilted under the wizardry of the game's most talented attacking force.
As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.
But all French resistance crumbled when left wing Hall snapped up Bosc's pass near his own line and raced unopposed for his 34th try of the season.
Although he was an eloquent advocate of human rights and a veteran of the French resistance, Mitterrand was criticized for working with pro-Nazi collaborators during World War II.
Likewise in Libya, even as US-led NATO forces continue to bomb Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists, there is a growing recognition that the NATO-supported rebels are not exactly the French Resistance.
When Roosevelt was planning to invade North Africa in 1942, key to his strategy was to minimize French resistance to the seizure of these African colonies before the Germans could grab them.
Lewis beat five defenders to barge through the defence and score almost straight from the restart, before a swift double from Brett Morris - both set up by Lockyer - broke French resistance.
It was at the forefront of the action with the Normandy landings in June 1944, again going behind enemy lines in jeeps assisting the French Resistance and providing crucial intelligence for allied forces.
After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.
Simone identified with downtrodden people everywhere, and starved herself to death in England in 1943 to express her solidarity with the suffering of her compatriots after the French Resistance refused to parachute her into occupied France.
Mr Evans's excellent book is marred only by the occasional editing error (ORAF, the Organisation of the French Algerian Resistance, exists only as an acronym, and Mr Evans, when talking of the founding members of the European Economic Community, omits the Netherlands).
The French commandos faced strong resistance from the outset, the defense ministry said in a statement.
All the same, the French president faces broad political resistance.
Western diplomats say they were confused by China's initial attempt to have Mr. Devillers extradited from Cambodia as it was certain to have met fierce resistance from the French government and the European Union.
The French-led forces faced little resistance during the initial offensive, when they recaptured major towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.
"We will not leave any pockets" of resistance, he told French television.
Malraux moved away from communism, to which he had almost given allegiance in the 1930s, and subsequently played an important part in preventing the French Communist Party from using the Resistance as a political vehicle in post-war France.
Mr Le Drian said French troops were also encountering pockets of resistance around the main northern city of Gao, adding that they were "practically in face-to-face combat" with the militants.
The man who symbolized France's resistance to Nazi occupation, he led the French government in exile during World War II and headed the first government after the Liberation.
It is chiefly resistance to change and a determination to preserve the French social model at all costs.
Clinton also will stress that it is imperative for the international community to speak with one voice on the issue, but administration officials acknowledge there is still deep resistance to military strikes among the Russians, the French, the Chinese and other Security Council members.
Time for Outrage, which has sold more than 4.5m copies in 35 countries, argues that the French need to again become outraged like those who participated in the wartime Resistance.
French and Malian forces have been sweeping north, earlier taking Gao and Timbuktu with almost no resistance.
But these new drugs, which are being developed by French drug giant Aventis and tiny Cubist Pharmaceuticals , are not going to solve the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
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