Praise for Petain

French President Emmanuel Macron has waded into controversy by praising a general who helped win World War I but became a top Nazi collaborator in World War II. Marshal Philippe Petain’s name appears alongside seven other top military chiefs to be honoured tomorrow in a ceremony at the Invalides monument. “Marshal Petain was also a great soldier during World War I” even though he made “fatal choices during World War II,” Macron said yesterday.