Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle   (politician)
Born	Charles André Joseph Pierre Marie de Gaulle 1890-11-22 Lille, France
Died	1970-11-09 (Age 79) Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France
Alma mater	École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Children	• Philippe • Élisabeth • Anne
Spouse	Yvonne Vendroux
Founder of	Gaullism
Interest of	Elf Aquitaine
Party	Rally of the French People, National Centre of Social Republicans, Union for the New Republic
President of France  In office 8 January 1959 - 28 April 1969 Succeeded by Alain Poher  Co-Prince of Andorra  In office 8 January 1959 - 28 April 1969  Prime Minister of France  In office 1 June 1958 - 8 January 1959  Chairman of the Provisional Government of France In office 20 August 1944 - 20 January 1946  Leader of the Free French In office 18 June 1940 - 3 July 1944  Minister of Defence In office 1 June 1958 - 8 January 1959  Minister of Algerian Affairs In office 12 June 1958 - 9 January 1959

 

Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Algiers putsch of 1961	“An insurrectionary power has established itself in Algeria by a military pronunciamento... This power has an appearance: a quartet of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of officers, partisan, ambitious and fanatical. This group and this quartet possess an expedient and limited knowledge of things. But they only see and understand the Nation and the world distorted by their delirium. Their enterprise leads directly towards a national disaster ... I forbid any Frenchman, and first of all any soldier, to execute a single one of their orders ... In the face of the misfortune which hangs over the country and the threat to the Republic, having taken advice from the Constitutional Council, the Prime Minister, the president of the Senate, the president of the National Assembly, I have decided to invoke article 16 of the Constitution [on the state of emergency and full special powers given to the head of state in case of a crisis]. Starting from this day, I will take, directly if the need arises, the measures which seem to me demanded by circumstances ... Frenchwomen, Frenchmen! Assist me!”	1961
Walter Hallstein	“He was ardently wedded to the thesis of the super-State, and bent all his skilful efforts towards giving the Community the character and appearance of one. He had made Brussels, where he resided, into a sort of capital. There he sat, surrounded with all the trappings of sovereignty, directing his colleagues, allocating jobs among them, controlling several thousand officials who were appointed, promoted and remunerated at his discretion, receiving the credentials of foreign ambassadors, laying claim to high honors on the occasion of his official visits, concerned above all to further the amalgamation of the Six, believing that the pressure of events would bring about what he envisaged.”	1971	Mémoires d'Espoir, page 184

 

Appointments by Charles de Gaulle

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
Joseph Fontanet	France/Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce	8 January 1959	5 February 1960
Joseph Fontanet	France/Minister/Health	24 August 1961	15 May 1962

 

Event Witnessed

Event	Location(s)	Description
May 68	France	7 weeks of civil unrest in France

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