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Charles de Gaulle — The man of 18 June and founder of the Fifth Republic, 1890–1970
An officer wounded and captured in the Great War, an armour theorist whom 1940 vindicated too late, he refused the defeat: the London appeal, Free France, Paris liberated. Withdrawn in 1946, recalled in 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and presided over it ten years. (Editorial synthesis)
Charles de Gaulle was born on 22 November 1890. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles de Gaulle died on 9 November 1970. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles de Gaulle died in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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