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The Birthplace of Charles de Gaulle (French: Maison natale de Charles de Gaulle) is a French museum located in Lille, in the Hauts-de-France, France.Previously, the museum was the home of Charles de Gaulle's maternal grandparents, where he was born in 1890.
One of de Gaulle's grandsons, also named Charles de Gaulle, was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004, his last tenure being for the far-right National Front. [187] The younger Charles de Gaulle's move to the anti-Gaullist National Front was widely condemned by other family members.
Charles de Gaulle is the flagship of the French Navy. The ship, commissioned in 2001, is the tenth French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the United States Navy. She is named after French president and general Charles de Gaulle.
The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved is a non-fiction book authored by the British historian and journalist Jonathan Fenby.Published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster, [1] the biography details the life and times of the iconic French statesman Charles de Gaulle, with the 20th-century history of the senior general and politician's nation also receiving focus.
In fact, neither de Gaulle nor the other passengers - his wife Yvonne and son-in-law Alain de Boissieu - were harmed. In February 1963, Watin was the organiser of a plot aiming to kill de Gaulle with a sniper - captain Robert Poinard - who was to use a rifle with telescopic sight to shoot the president inspecting the honour guard in the cobbled ...
The de Gaulle family produced several 20th-century officers, Resistance members, and French politicians.. There is a widespread notion claiming that the particle in "de Gaulle" is derived from a dialectal form of the article (it should logically be written De Gaulle, for one writes Le Châtelier, but usage has always favoured the lowercase form).
Charles de Gaulle's trip to South America was a series of state visits made by the first president of the French Fifth Republic to South America between September 21 and October 16, 1964. During this trip of three weeks and 32,000 km , [ N 1 ] the longest made by Charles de Gaulle , he visited Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia ...
Charles Roger René Jacques de Gaulle (born 25 September 1948) is a French politician. He is the eldest child of Admiral Philippe de Gaulle and grandson of General Charles de Gaulle, and served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP), from 1994 to 2004 [1] (as a member of the Movement for France).