France's longest border is nowhere near Europe, in fact it is nestled within the Amazon Rainforest. Stretching 450 miles, it is ever longer than France's border with Spain, which measures 387 miles.

The border was marked out by stone markers which have remained in place A farmer in Belgium has caused a stir after inadvertently redrawing the country's border with France. A local history ...

Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...