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Mort pour la France is a term used in the French legal system for people who died during a conflict, usually in service of the country.
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Definition
The term is defined in L.488 to L.492 (bis) of the Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre. It encompasses members of the French military forces who died in action or from an injury or an illness contracted during the service during the First and Second World Wars, the Indochina and Algeria Wars, and fighting in Morocco and the Tunisian War of Independence, and to French civil casualties killed during these conflicts.
Copyright
French copyright law gives a special 30 years extension of copyright to creative artists declared "Mort pour la France" over the usual 70 years post mortem (article L. 123-10).
Writers
List of writers officially declared "Mort pour la France".
Composers
List of composers officially declared "Mort pour la France".