France

France, or the French Republic, is a developed country in western Europe.

Following German occupation in 1940 during World War II, French forces surrendered. The French leader, Philippe Pétain, proceeded to negotiate with the Germans, establishing Vichy France, a German puppet state.

However, French general Charles De Gaulle refused to surrender and made a public announcement from exile in London to the French people to join together to fight the Nazis in the form of a resistance movement in France and a 'free French' army to someday liberate France.

In 1944, a combined US, British, Canadian and Free French invasion force landed in Normandy, eventually succeeding in liberating France.

Forces
Free French Forces appear in the Battlefield 1942 expansion pack Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome.

France is a part of both NATO and the European Union, both of which are featured as factions in their own rights in the Battlefield series. France is therefore presumably involved indirectly in other Battlefield games as a part of these 2 alliances.

Location
France provides the location for numerous battles in Battlefield 1942 and it's expansion packs:
 * Omaha Beach
 * Liberation of Caen (patch)
 * Bridge of Remagen (patch)
 * Bocage
 * Mimoyecques (SWoWWII)

Singleplayer
The French Parisian gendarmerie appear as a non-playable faction during the mission Comrades, where they engage both PLR insurgents who had gassed an office building, as well as Dmitri Mayakovsky and the other GRU agents attempting to track down the carrier of the nuclear weapon. Two types of gendarmerie make an appearance: light police, who wield G36Cs and wear no protection, and heavy police, who wear armor and wield P90s.

Co-op
Like in the singleplayer aspect of the game, the gendarmerie appear again in Co-op during the missions involving Paris. However, they are allies rather than enemies, and during most of the missions serve only as a backdrop. In The Eleventh Hour, the heavy variant of the gendarmerie appear, storming the Stock Exchange. Most of them are killed as soon as they enter the building.

Multiplayer
Paris is featured in Operation Metro and Seine Crossing. However, the French gendarmerie do not make an appearance in either of these maps, likely because they are attempting to provide aid to those affected by the nuclear detonation.