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President of France from 1959 to 1969

"De Gaulle" redirects here.

French President Charles de Gaulle () was a controversial figure on the international scene during the Cold War. He steered an original and.

The voyage of the general De Gaulle –its first official foreign displacement June , , between Lombardy and the capital, Rome, has a double aim: to.

1French President Charles de Gaulle () was a controversial figure on the international scene during the Cold War. He steered an original and.

By embodying the concept of Nation, Charles De. Gaulle had the possibility to overcome the limits imposed by the internal political conflicts, just to serve the.

Yvonne Charlotte Anne-Marie de Gaulle was the wife of Charles de Gaulle.

For the film, see De Gaulle (film). For other uses, see Charles de Gaulle (disambiguation).

In this article, the surname is De Gaulle, not Gaulle.

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle^[a][b] (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.

In 1958, amid the Algerian War, he came out of retirement when appointed 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 he held until his resignation in 1969.

Born in Lille, he was a decorated officer of the First World War, wounded several times and take