Recently finished reading Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War, and towards the end she states that conscription ended offically in 2001. After WW1 I can see why, but surely they would have gotten rid of it after the second world war. Did they just forget to end it? Or is there something else to the story?
Here is an older answer of mine that explains the history of conscription in France and the reasons for its suspension in 1996 (and eventual elimination in 2001).