The Battle of France happened during World War I.
The Battle of France , also known as the Fall of France , was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War . The Battle of Saint Hilaire-le-Grand took place on July 25 , 1918 , during World War I. 1st Polish Rifles Regiment , which was part of the French Army in World War I , clashed with forces of the German Empire . World War I . After the German march on Paris was halted in the Battle of the Marne , what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition , with a trench line that changed little until 1917 .