Gen. Marcel Bigeard, who led France's elite parachute forces in colonial wars in independence-seeking Indochina and Algeria after serving in the French Resistance in World War II, has died at age 94.
An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered. By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Toul, France Every month, activists ...