PARIS—France’s top military officer resigned Wednesday in a public feud with President Emmanuel Macron over military spending, posing the first major test of the new leader’s drive to invest his office with more authority. The resignation of Gen. Pierre de Villiers marked the first time any chief of the country’s armed forces has resigned since the post was created in the 1960s, historians said. It was the culmination of rising tensions between the general and the 39-year-old president, who refused to back down on plans...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 19, 2017 12:07 UTC