Charles de Gaulle was born 120 years ago in Lille.

Charles de Gaulle has governed France for 10 years.

Charles de Gaulle has governed France for 10 years.

This became known in Poland as the Western Betrayal.

The Europeans in particular the French complained about what General Charles de Gaulle termed the exorbitant privilege of the US dollar.

PARIS Fifty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle seized power in France in what was, in essence, a legal coup d etat.

Vladimir de Gaulle?

In his famous University of Zurich speech in 1946, Winston Churchill urged that The first step in the re creation of the European Family must be a partnership between France and Germany. Franco German reconciliation, guided by the leadership of men like General Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, made post war Europe's amazing successes possible.

Franco German reconciliation, guided by the leadership of men like General Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, made post war Europe's amazing successes possible.

As Charles de Gaulle forecast, It is not any European statesman who will unite Europe.

As Charles de Gaulle forecast, It is not any European statesman who will unite Europe. Europe will be united by the Chinese.

De Gaulle at the Barricades

Forty years ago, Charles de Gaulle said Non to Britain's request to join the European Community.

Indeed, measured against today s standards, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower were comparatively authoritarian leaders.

Charles de Gaulle prevailed politically after ending French colonial rule in Algeria.

Former French president Valéry Giscard d Estaing once famously complained about America s exorbitant privilege.

Is today s Union prepared to reverse a course first charted by such titans as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer four decades ago?

The French were Israel's greatest supporters until President Charles de Gaulle turned away from the Jewish state after the Six Day War in 1967.

LONDON Two hundred years have passed since the battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon s calamitous defeat made such a huge dent in his country s self image that General Charles de Gaulle, in his history of the French army, simply omitted it.

Nor did Charles de Gaulle have any qualms about telling the proponents of French Algeria that, in the end, he did not understand them.

But even Charles de Gaulle, a resistance leader of the right, had to accept Communists in his first postwar government, and he agreed to nationalize industries and banks.

Four decades ago, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer approved the creation of new textbooks that children in both countries would use to help heal the century long Franco German antagonism.

As French President Charles de Gaulle once complained, since the dollar is the reference currency everywhere, it can cause others to suffer the effects of its poor management.

De Gaulle was at Colombey, but returned immediately to Paris.

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Although no currency is as of yet qualified to replace the dollar as the world s reserve and transaction currency, this exorbitant privilege, as Charles de Gaulle put it, has come under stealthy attack.

Charles de Gaulle took France out of the NATO military alliance in 1966.

This is why de Gaulle is almost certain to be on any list of great leaders.

This ever changing identity was startling, but, on second thought, it made sense after all, Charles de Gaulle famously said that it is difficult to govern a country with 246 types of cheese.

Indeed, the result represents a stunning and historic defeat during the Fifth Republic, three sitting presidents Charles de Gaulle, Mitterrand, and Jacques Chirac have been reelected after their first term in office.

The couple had a son, Charles Émile (1789 1874), and a daughter, Sophie Suzanne (1792 1813).

French President Charles de Gaulle was the only one to question whether an American president would actually ever be ready to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR in order to protect one or several Alliance members if vital US interests were not directly at stake.

But put things in perspective Jacques Chirac is not Charles de Gaulle and Europe has moved far beyond the time when its agenda was unilaterally written by France.

But de Gaulle later resigned of his own volition, over an issue of minor importance.

In France half a century ago, as the Cold War loomed, Charles de Gaulle easily convinced the French that they were heroic during World War II because he was heroic.

In his memoirs, de Gaulle stated his preference for restoring the monarchy after the Liberation.

A military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in 1923, and he ran Spain as a military dictatorship.

Indeed, through much of the Cold War, de Gaulle appeared to want to avoid having to choose sides between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In fact, the worldviews that de Gaulle and Churchill established for their countries turned out to be a little too influential.

When France first invited Britain to join the infant European enterprise, a decade before General de Gaulle barred the door, the supercilious mandarins in Britain's Treasury ensured that Britain would indignantly reject the offer.

Yes, General. Yes, General.

When Charles de Gaulle revived the French Republic after World War II, he ignored the history of Vichy France and Nazi collaboration by pretending that all French citizens had been good republican patriots.

First, few leaders write well, though there are exceptions, like Nehru, Churchill, and de Gaulle.

Most of them are also available in English (see links for translations)

What de Gaulle despised about the Fourth Republic was what he dubbed the regime of the parties, which put their own interests above the national interest.