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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was born on 22 November 1890 in Lille, the third of five children. [2] He was raised in a devoutly Catholic and traditional family. His father, Henri de Gaulle, was a professor of history and literature at a Jesuit college and eventually founded his own school. [3]: 42–47
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle: This is the legal name of de Gaulle, used for official purposes when he was alive, in his birth, marriage, and death certificates, passports and other identity documents. However it is not used in French encyclopedias or dictionaries.
Photograph of Charles de Gaulle, pictured making a subsequent radio broadcast in 1941 . The Appeal of 18 June (French: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle of France.
A few days after the Normandy landings, General Charles de Gaulle sought to symbolically meet the French people in one of the first towns liberated. He also aimed to counter the American intentions to establish their own administration in France in the form of the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), a branch of which had been specifically prepared to govern France.
Charles de Gaulle – Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II.
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).
De Gaulle conversed frequently with George Ball, United States President Lyndon Johnson's Under Secretary of State, and told Ball that he feared that the United States risked repeating France's tragic experience in Vietnam, which de Gaulle called "ce pays pourri" ("the rotten country"). Ball later sent a 76-page memorandum to Johnson critiquing ...
Henri Charles Alexandre de Gaulle (22 November 1848 – 3 May 1932) was a French civil servant and later a schoolteacher. He was the father of Charles de Gaulle , a general of the French army and President of France .