Military occupation of France

Occupation of France may refer to:

• The occupations by coalition forces after the French defeats of the Sixth Coalition and Hundred days phases of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 and 1815.

• The occupation of northern France in the late phase of and after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871-1873.

• The French border areas behind the front lines during the First World War in 1914-1918.

• The Axis occupation zones during the Second World War in 1940-1944:
  • Zone occupée mostly in northern and western France under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany)
  • Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France
  • Alsace-Lorraine annexed by Germany as Elsaß-Lothringen
  • Zone libre where the officially neutral and independent Vichy France (État français) was established until occupied in 1942
  • Italian occupation of France during World War II