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Charles de Gaulle: The Symbol of French Defiance

German soldiers and officers saw Charles de Gaulle less as a battlefield commander and more as a powerful symbol of French resistance. After France’s rapid defeat in 1940, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from ...
USNI

French Carrier Charles de Gaulle Wraps First Pacific Deployment

An F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the ‘Stingers’ of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 113, and an F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the ‘Bounty Hunters’ of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 2, taxi across ...
The New York Times

De Gaulle Rises as France Sours on Trump’s America

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an America on “the side of the tyrants” return the Statue of Liberty. By Roger ...
CNN

France is entering crisis mode again. It didn’t have to be this way

It was a question famously asked by France’s wartime leader and former President Charles de Gaulle. “How can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?” More than 60 years on, the answer ...