Who is Charles De Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] (listen); 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.Born in Lille, he graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1912. He was a decorated officer...
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- Old age is a shipwreck.
- Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
- You'll live. Only the best get killed.
- It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
- I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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