Twenty years after his death, Charles de Gaulle has seldom been more in the news than this year on the 100th anniversary of his birth and this week on the 50th anniversary of his historic appeal from ...
Explores the life of General De Gaulle, from the Appeal of June 18, 1940, to his departure from power in 1969. A dive into the military and political career of De Gaulle and an inside portrait of his ...
One of the most famous speeches in modern French history -- General Charles de Gaulle's 1940 radio plea for France to resist the Nazi occupation -- is set to go on display on Saturday for the first ...
No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.
Armenian actor Simon Abkarian will portray General Charles de Gaulle in “De Gaulle,” a French-language, two-part historical ...
De Gaulle, by Julian Jackson (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 928 pp., $39.95) Charles de Gaulle was perhaps the most thoughtful and impressive statesman of the twentieth century. His only ...
PARODYING Marshal Foch, who once observed that Communism is a disease of defeated countries, a cynic might be tempted to say that memoir-writing is a malady of defeated generals. But the experience of ...
How Charles de Gaulle’s story became a collective fairy tale that the French have agreed to believe in. Picture him as a legend, Joan of Arc in drag. A great nation is conquered by its historic enemy ...
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