Final Days of an Icon: Charles de Gaulle

On November 9, 1970, one of the most emblematic and complex personalities on the French political scene died. A stroke had killed Charles de Gaulle at the Boisserie in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.
Directors: Philippe Caldéron and Christophe Weber

[@johnjeanb]

Frenchman here: Charles de Gaulle was a giant and he played a major role in France's history. He somewhat wiped-out the 1940 humiliation, in 5 years he totally put back France on its feet from a war-torn (Algeria, Indochina, etc), bankrupt, politically unstable country, into a properous one who was among the first to pay back all its WW2 creditors; This insolent economic and political success was an insult to all opposition parties. Success was obtained by rigor and total absence of clientelism (to be wealthy, you must roll-up your sleeves and not whine all the time). After May 68 which was a terrible shock for everyone (all that wealth was taken for granted and now, on with perpetual holidays and the "il est interdit d'interdir" culture). De Gaulle challenged the French people in a "All-or-Nothing" coup with his referendum on "régionalisation". Was it a pretext (ground-for or an excuse) for De Gaulle to leave center stage? He was 79 years old which is a pretty decent time to stop working so intensely. This man has been mentally in battledress all his life, fighting wars, writing books, escaping assassination attemps with " un flegme Britannique" (a British coolness with stiff upper lip). De Gaulle forsaw things to come decades before and he was so immense that all people around him looked like dwarfs.

[@MarkHarrison733]

The UK and France committed suicide by starting two world wars they could not win.

[@BB-ry2nd]

@@MarkHarrison733 Huh? The first World War was started by the Austrians, the second by an Austrian.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@BB-ry2nd The British Empire sided with Serbian terrorists in 1914, and backed the Soviet invasion of fascist Poland in 1939. Hitler was German.

[@gabrielbalbec883]

A perfect summary of his life and achievements, indeed.

[@branko4033]

The SoB was "leading" the liberation of France from private clubs in London's West End.

[@mrpeel3239]

He defended, liberated and guided France, unlike any other.

[@user-id9fv6of6x]

I am extremely impressed with this offering. As an aged individual, I am so pleased to see on KZbin these presentations of the historical past which each new viewing generations SHOULD view!!! De Gaulle is an extremely important figure of the 20th century. How humbling to hear that he would have wished to meet Ho Chi Minh!!!! How I wish that our current generation of viewers could understand the significance of de Gaulle's meeting with de Valera in Ireland! This was wonderful, and I thank you for this significant historical offering to your viewers. WELL DONE!!!! My name is Peter & thank you for your efforts!!!!

[@princepeter9864]

Thankyou Peter for sharing your thoughts. De Gaulle still inspire people who wanted to live a life beyond ordinary and for something worthwhile.

[@12345660422]

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[@12345660422]

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[@landafluit7590]

My admiration is for Charles de Gaulle, strange how admired after his passing, he was an patriot

[@Marcus-78]

Avec lui, la France fut grande et respectée. Aujourd'hui, elle s'enfonce hélas dans un déclin paraissant irréversible. Quelle tristesse pour la mémoire de cet homme ...

[@bobcomment8589]

C est lui qui nous a importe la racaille gaucho et suedoise

[@jacquelinedallest8334]

Il nous faudrait un homme comme Charles de Gaule

[@tedgebregzi3832]

I have seen him in Addis Abeba,while visiting Ethiopia.I felt I am part of it.

[@indianajones5324]

le seul président patriote de l'histoire de France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@giorgosfylaktou2610]

ΣΥΜΦΩΝΏ 👍 ΑΠΌΛΥΤΑ ΜΑΖΊ ΣΟΥ 👍👍🇨🇾🇨🇾

[@user-ip3nh9pc1y]

Eikös tämä herra. Ollut maan paossa Toisen maailmansodan aikana Kun Saksa miehitti Ranskan ? Saksa marssi maahan (Se oli häpeä) Kukaan ei tehnyt mitään = Puollustanut maata Hän siis jätti Maansa vihollisen käsiin Kun olisi pitänyt jäädä Kansan tueksi ☹👎

[@alainfilho1467]

Moi aussi...vive de GAULLE... ​@@giorgosfylaktou2610

[@Marceaugu.71]

​@@alainfilho1467et De Gaulle qui traitait les français de veaux le salaud

[@GermanGreetings]

''La France est veuve...'' ce moment m`a fait pleurir, comme en vue de l’incendie de Notre Dame. Allez, les Bleues ! Je suis content, que vous existe.

[@alainfilho1467]

Viel dank ...liberté FREUND...VIVE de GAULLE..

[@chicagomike]

For some reason I loved de Gaulle

[@alainfilho1467]

DE GAULLE ÉTAIT UN GÉANT...TOUS LES AUTRES PRÉSIDENTS FURENT DES NABOTS😂😂😂 VIVE DE GAULLE

[@duroccoenky]

Thanks for uploading, when was this filmed?

[@ahaszsaddssd9931]

This is a 2005 documentary

[@MultiGabrielchavez]

Excelente documental

[@MattCabalitan]

A great general of France

[@antothomas8488]

De gaulle was a great leader of great french republic

[@franckranaivo666]

DIEU🌹🇻🇦✝️🇨🇵🌹 ACCUEILLEZ DÉSORMAIS DANS VOTRE PARADIS🌼🏵🍒,L'ÂME IMMENSÉMENT 💮💡🧭CATHOLIQUE du Général Charles de GAULLE 🌺🍋😇🌼🇻🇦✝️🇨🇵🪢🌻💛🌿🥰🕯🌸🙋‍♂️!!!

[@edwaldocamargo4387]

De Gaulle foi um político que até hoje os franceses tem respeito coisa política que não existe hoje. Tem algo de muito especial nessa pessoa política que os políticos de hoje na França não aprenderam

[@giorgosfylaktou2610]

ΣΥΜΦΩΝΏ 👍 ΑΠΌΛΥΤΑ ΜΑΖΊ ΣΟΥ 🇨🇾🇨🇾👍👍

[@alainfilho1467]

EXACT... .

[@ildafranco5687]

Junto com Churchill … grandes nomes que combateram o nazi fascismo🙏🙏🙏

[@nev7711]

No longer do we have strong patriots as leaders in the West.

[@Aloysir]

UN TRÈS GRAND HOMME

[@carlosenriquecrousillat2483]

Uno de los más grandes líderes de Francia y del mundo, Francia es lo que es gracias a la determinación, patriotismo y fe que tuvo en su patria, viva DeGaulle, viva Francia, gracias por esta entrega.

[@alainfilho1467]

GRACIA ...AMIGO MERCI AMI😊😊😊

[@gloriag1888]

Correction: Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt 1918-1970, was 52 when died suddenly NOT 59. 🤔

[@eduardobomben6521]

Un gran hombre que hizo más grande a Francia, un verdadero estadista.

[@briandavid6879]

También tenía sus defectos. Un hombre soberbio y terco, distanciado de los jóvenes de su país, con cierto resentimiento inexplicable hacia el Reino Unido y Estados Unidos pese al enorme apoyo y sacrificios que estos países prestaron a Francia en la Guerra. Las protestas del 1968 derivaron en parte del descontento popular con su Gobierno.

[@brahim119]

@@briandavid6879 _" with a certain inexplicable resentment towards the United Kingdom and the United States"_ There was no resentment from his part. He simply didn't want France to be occupied again, this time by the US. The US that occupied West Germany and the rest of Western Europe, like Italy and the other small countries. De Gaulle saw that coming, when the US did its best to push him aside and supported Pierre Laval, a Nazi collaborator, for the presidency of France, . Note that Pierre Laval was prime minister in the government of Phillipe Petain who fully collaborated with Adolf Hitler, but the Americans wanted him instead of De Gaulle who simply refused to bow to Washington, in fact he told the US president, _"I am too poor to bow to you."_ Laval was tried and executed 6 months after the end of WWII. Also note, that the US and the UK were not keen that France obtains a permanent seat in the United Nations, but it was thanks to Joseph Stalin support that France obtained it. The US wanted France to be another European vassal, Charles de Gaull refused, the Washingtonians hated him and his guts. _"The 1968 protests derived in part from popular discontent with his government."_ It was a color revolution during the Hippie movement. The US did not like two things that Charles de Gaulle did. 1- He took France out of NATO. 2- He ordered the Bank of France to increase the amount of payments in gold that was stored in New Work Federal Reserve, later on, a French warship was sent to bring back the gold France had stored in the US, the French knew the coming plan of Richard Nixon about decoupling the US dollar from the gold standard. Charles de Gaulle never claimed that he is perfect, but he was nobody's fool, and the Washingtonians couldn't stand him for that.

[@tintorvictor6595]

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

[@alainfilho1467]

​@@briandavid6879la jeunesse de MERDE...avec des amis comme les américains...pas besoin d'ennemis..sachant qu'ils doivent leur indépendance à la FRANCE ...eh OUI 😊😊😊😊

[@julianmeek2156]

Vraiment interessant.

[@pedenmk]

I want to visit France for the holidays this year. So much history there. Great episode thanks for sharing.

[@tedgebregzi3832]

Also visiting(seeing)Paris must be very interesting

[@alainfilho1467]

La FRANCE est en train de mourir..ils l'ont tué surtout le dernier MACRON c'est une MERDE...

[@jackchevalier8105]

The ceremony at Notre-Dame de Paris, was not decided nor wanted by Général de Gaulle, it's a decision taken by the government. As for the official funeral, they were decided long before by Général de Gaulle himself to be set in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises where is daughter was already in the cemetery. NEVER Général de Gaulle thought he would be called back. He was too clever for that. That a big flat lie.

[@DJS11811]

"The Italians only had to forget a defeat. The French had to create a victory, which is much more difficult." --Luigi Barzini.

[@edwaldocamargo4387]

Amar a França amar o povo francês amar era o segredo político desse grande francês. É assim que si faz um grande político

[@alainfilho1467]

CHARLES REVIENT...ILS SONT DEVENUS FOUS..

[@sonnyirish3678]

At time of European giants and look what we have today.

[@alainfilho1467]

EXACT....

[@artabro]

El general Charles de Gaulle, con su postura ante la rendición francesa y el colaboracionismo de Vichy con la Alemania Nazi, me merecía respeto y admiración, que se vió empañada con la visita que hizo al dictador Franco en España, ¿qué podría aportarle ese dictador? Se equivocó al creer que entre militares se podrían entender. La vejez quizá fue la culpable de semejante error, dando un reconocimiento implícito a quien no lo merecía. No podía esperar de su gallardía esa ofensa a quienes luchaban por librarse de aquella dictadura sangrienta. Posiblemente ni sus propios partidarios lo entendieron.

[@JohnEdwardBerry]

Hips like a woman, head like a Pineapple.

[@user-zk3wx7xh5h]

🕊🤲

[@giorgosfylaktou2610]

HE WAS AND HE WILL BE THE BEST AND NO.1 PRESIDENT OF FRANCE 🇫🇷. DESPITE 1968 PARIS AND FRANCE 🇫🇷 UPRISING. HE WAS ABOVE ALL THE LIBERATOR OF FRANCE 🇫🇷 IN 1944 AGAINST NAZIS. VIVE LE PRESIDENT ET GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE. 🇨🇾🇨🇾👍👍

[@alainfilho1467]

VIVE DE GAULLE..HEUREUSEMENT POUR LUI IL NE VERA PAS ..LA FIN ANNONCÉE ...

[@tomvousregarde2023]

Vive de Gaulle !

[@fabrys2000]

Interessante documentario, anche se la traduzione italiana presenta vari errori

[@hugueslecorre4893]

I find the title Général de Gaulle is no more used, even in the comments. To remind that he, colonel, was named "temporary General of brigade by his close friend Paul Reynaud, the president of the consule for 3 months. On June 18 1940 he, colonel, presents himself as general on BBC. On 19 he was dismissed from the army. After the liberation, the army offered him a small retirement pension as colonel but he refused. This made him a civilian since June 19 1940 with theater military uniform of general.

[@user-lt6xp1wx9f]

He could have been lieutenant, he would have done the same, but hardier for stupid universal grade recognition reasons. Who cares?

[@hugueslecorre4893]

@@user-lt6xp1wx9f In 1925 he was a captain. Marshall Petain chose him to write a book about military tactics after large number of notes that he wrote in his long career. A contract was signed with an editor precising the amount to be payed to Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle instead of writing a book, wrote several books after Petain's notes all under his own name and got gradually higher positions to reach colonel only after 13 years from captain and the book for Petain got dissolved. He didn't got the initiative to go to London, it was Paul Reynaut who asked him to organize an external French opposition from London. If on June 18th he has announced on BBC, me Colonel De Gaulle, join me, I don't believe he would have convinced other officers to do so.

[@manolostr7924]

Excellent reportage. Bravo. Par contre, le regroupement familial décidé par le général de Gaulle en 1968, puis richement amélioré par le président libéral Giscard d'Estaing n'a pas été une de ses meilleures idées. On en paye les frais soixante ans plus tard...

[@davewhiteman8353]

Bloody hell! That was a bit grim.

[@Bibi111ism]

Un phrasé extraordinaire, en partie héritée de la troisième république, mais qui puisse bien plus loin dans l'ancien régime et qui a complètement disparu aujourd'hui.

[@michaelburton5988]

He thought we saved his country but actually for a few years he saved ours may ge rest in peace

[@hellochannel6344]

Us French use to say he must be wiggling and twisting in his grave when seeing what became of France today.

[@grzegorzrozynski8659]

I wonder what de Gaulle would have said about nowadays France...

[@LeonardoPires-iu6gz]

Minha escola no Brasil se chama Charles de Gaulle foi interessante saber da história deste homem

[@peterpluim7912]

The man burned all bridges when he left France for the UK. He left for France not as the very junior general he was but as an even more junior minister in the elected government. People who think De Gaulle was somehow a coward don’t know what they talk about and should be ashamed. The man was a politician for a couple of weeks and incarnated in his person the legitimate government of France. I recommend to read the excellent biography by Julian Jackson. Americans who disparage him for being a beggar for his country should look into their own history and remember there were more French troops at at Yorktown than colonial troops. Does this diminish the role of Washington or Franklin?

[@briandelaney9710]

He was uncharitable to England who gave him a home and protection in 1940

[@peterpluim7912]

@@briandelaney9710 Churchill begged him to come but tried to discard him once he was was not as malleable as expected and the USA and the British tried to replace him with Giraud. De Gaulle kept the British out of the EU and it is a good thing he did so. De Gaulle predicted the UK would fight the EU from the inside as history proved happened. It was the UK who forced the membership of the eastern EU countries and the veto power of a single state , and then left. On a side note: look up how the British treated the Poles who performed splendidly during the Battle of Britain. As Dowding said: “Had it not been for the magnificent work of the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of battle would have been the same.” They were not even allowed to march in the victory parade. De Gaulle owned the British nothing except a collaboration that benefited both sides, like the Concorde.

[@deanedge5988]

@@peterpluim7912 We didn't enthusiastically participate in the Holocaust though did we?

[@peterpluim7912]

@@deanedge5988 Do you really want to go there?

[@deanedge5988]

@@peterpluim7912 Yes. the Velo d'Hiver really happened didnt it; and Ive read Jacksons pre-war history and am in fact an admirer of Le General.

[@hernanmanzanomunoz1116]

Ojalá hubiese traducción al español.

[@wernerbomer7544]

Auch ins Deutsche.

[@Heimrik01]

Clic sur la roue crantée sous la vidéo, puis sur "sous titres" et chois ta langue.

[@alainfilho1467]

​@wernerbIch hoffe bald poutr vous omer7544

[@stc40]

A fascinating character...but, as Churchill once said, the biggest cross i had to bear during the war was the cross of Lorraine... without a doubt a flawed man who had plenty to be flawed about..

[@gunarimanurung2245]

👍👍

[@user-jm8yw9fu7w]

في الحرب العالمية الثانية وقبل دخول القوات الألمانية باريس تمكن ديكول من الفرار إلى لندن وكان يقود المقاومة الفرنسية من لندن ويعطي تعليماته إلى الشباب الفرنسي على الصمود ويضربوا الألمان في كل مكان في فرنسا وكان هذا عبر الراديو مباشرةً

[@amer9208]

🔥

[@marie-genevievegenevievd8892]

Revenez!

[@constantquestioning4010]

Who orchestrated May 68? One guess

[@joseluissanchezferrer1843]

Los subtítulos en español son desastrosos.

[@bobcomment8589]

C est lui qui nous a importe les Kevin et Mateo. Remerciez le bien.

[@ivandegrisogono3334]

A real patriot! Just shows, once again, what a jerk Macron is.

[@davidfarmer2049]

There are 250 000 words in the english langauage to choose from. Mayhe be some thing other than an icon

[@tigransuqiasyan4839]

✊🇦🇲✨✨✨🇫🇷❤️

[@djolivierastro]

34:36 Making a guess , i think the word used by De Gaulle about Franco might have been 'soporifique' instead of léthargique

[@rogerlebaron]

Once, when asked for his opinion of Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill mused: “If I regard de Gaulle as a great man? He is selfish, he is arrogant, he believes he is the center of the world.

[@sebastiaodavila9747]

So? How is that supposed to be a problem? Many leaders across the world have a HUGE ego, many of them are arrogant, and many of them actually do believe to be the center of the world. As long as they do a good job and, most importantly, as long as they're not bloodthirsty tyrants like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin or Mao. Roosevelt HATED De Gaulle. Churchill and Roosevelt had contempt for De Gaulle and perhaps it had something to do with the fact that they were like in some sort of exclusive club of English-speaking leaders and they were like ''get away little French''. I don't hate Churchill but he was equally an arrogant and easily self-satisfied gentleman (although he was pretty badass and sometimes funny). As for Roosevelt, I simply don't like that man, he hated almost everybody: he really didn't like France at all. He hated the Germans (which is understandable since they were the enemies during W.W.2 but it's not just that he hated the nazis because nazis, he hated the Germans BECAUSE Germans). He also hated the Japanese (which is also understandable because, during W.W.2, the U.S. was at war with Imperial Japan in the Pacific Ocean but Roosevelt didn't just hate the Japanese soldiers of the Imperial Army, they hated ALL the Japanese). He also hated the Russians not just ''because Soviets'' but ''BECAUSE RUSSIANS''.

[@peterpluim7912]

The similarities in the life’s of both men are strikingly.

[@user-kc6wf4ne8j]

churchill the war criminal of the jews

[@benedictdesilva6677]

Churchill is said to have whispered to a companion as both of them watched de Gaulle walk by: "There but for the grace of God goes God himself."

[@peterpluim7912]

@@benedictdesilva6677 Hé was a strange man. Very simple in his personal habits but when he represented France, nothing could be good enough. People tend to forget he was accepted by his fellow French as the leader of the Free French in London. He was not exactly a buffoon. :)

[@bobacrey1068]

He said "Non" twice to the UK. Brought down by "Non". Karma

[@ilokivi]

The UK has also been hoisted by its own petard, by saying Leave. Karma is like that.

[@geraldverdier876]

C'est pas une icône c'est lui qui a fait la France et aujourd'hui on a celui qui détruit tt ce que De Gaulle a fait ! 🤦

[@moniquebouchez4675]

Le Gal de Gaulle fut le seul président de la république qui a donné à la France🇨🇵 sa grandeur sa puissance il aimait le peuple français il avait des valeurs une bonne éducation qu'il a transmis au ministère de l'éducation nationale pour les écoles de la république de mon enfance 🎉😮

[@saltyroe3179]

A brave man, a leader, an anti American.

[@branko4033]

A coward, a conman and a KGB agent tasked with obstructing NATO.

[@georgesseguy3105]

Prendre des photos de CDG décédé...cela ressemble à une commande de Paris Match....mais je peux me tromper.

[@user-ip3nh9pc1y]

En ymmärrä miksi Häntä ylistetään Jätti isänmaa Kun Saksan panssari oli kadun kulmissa ?

[@tonylove4800]

Nothing without Britain.

[@giorgosfylaktou2610]

ΔΕΝ ΣΥΜΦΩΝΏ ΜΑΖΙ ΣΟΥ. ΖΗΤΩ Η ΓΑΛΛΙΑ.

[@seansparks2803]

​@giorgosfylaktou2610 Where was CDG in exile from 1940 until 1944. It was London. The allied forces reluctantly included CDG in the events building up to D-Day which was on the 06 June 1944. No French forces were involved in the D Day landings. The success of the allied forces in Normandy allowed for the liberation of Paris. It was the US Army that gave permission for CDG to be present in Paris on liberation day. That's how it more or less all started for CDG as he was a relatively unknown senior French army officer before 1940. But nonetheless he was a great man of his time and someone who I have always admired.

[@katalingaspar7752]

Valóban nagy volt!

[@alainfilho1467]

Comme toi...

[@vicripoll]

Spent most of WW2 in London... Proper Legend...

[@markstephens1026]

He wanted all the glory for liberating France

[@capoislamort100]

Exactly; and then came back a hero on an American jeep, as if he was the one to the liberate his country. The French rewrote history Down Petain Up de Gaulle.

[@Hartley_Hare]

He was one of the great statesmen of the twentieth century and played a very difficult hand superbly.

[@patrickessel3317]

Pétain était une crevure exécrable qui a mérité sa condamnation à mort. Hélas il a été gracié par..... De Gaulle. ​@@capoislamort100

[@AuxaneST]

Nope he moved across North Africa with the provisionary government in exile.

[@johnkeller6063]

I now know what the 1418 war is. World war 1

[@maryrose4712]

I had to google it, interesting right.

[@eletricidadeengenharia]

Esse cara fez um acordo com Hitler: ele não lutava, não interferia, porém seria deixado em paz no seu retiro de Vichy. Fazia isso enquanto a população francesa era deixada à mercê da tirania alemã. Esse homem era um militar que se recusou a lutar na II Guerra, porém foi no Champs Elyseè comemorar o dia da vitória.

[@alainfilho1467]

Va passer un contrôle médical c'est URGENT..😅😅😅😅

[@cedricjoshuapayne]

An icon usually means someone you've heard of.

[@patrickwatrin5093]

So you have never heard of degaule?

[@cedricjoshuapayne]

@@patrickwatrin5093 No. Should I have?

[@patrickwatrin5093]

@@cedricjoshuapayne no not necessarily, but if you are up on things then yeah obviously.but if you just a average dunderhead I would say no

[@sebastiaodavila9747]

I don't know from which country you are but in France, De Gaulle is a HUGE figure. Even in the political and cultural landscape of modern-day France, De Gaulle remains a reference and it is very frowned upon in French society to lack respect for the General. De Gaulle is among the big names of those who fought against Nazi Germany. He is a bit like the French equivalent of Winston Churchill (in fact the two men met several times in London). Oh and, he was President of France in the 60's.

[@michaelcorkery3853]

Does "The Day of the Jackal" ring a bell?

[@emanueldanbarbaresso3366]

la subtitrare in limba romana primul razboi mondial a inceput in anul 1914 si nu 1418

[@felipenoronha1659]

O Brasil não é um país sério, é realmente não é kkk

[@georgesouthwick7000]

A legend in his own mind.

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

A great man.

[@AuxaneST]

A legend. Period.

[@Robert2022._-]

De Gaulle visitó en 1970 España y fue recibido por Franco, este le pareció un anciano al visitante y eso que solo era 2 años menor que el. Ese año murió el que fue presidente francés y Franco 5 años después. La muerte y funeral congregó en París a reyes, príncipes, jefes de estado, de gobierno, ministros. Entre ellos Nixon y un dirigente de la URSS.

[@Peter-le3ux]

👍🇩🇪

[@Pincopalin2143]

Only if it wasn’t for his hated England, his ma belle france would not be around by now

[@youarewhatyouare]

His nose is on display in a cabinet on the 10th floor of the tower

[@redblack8414]

@youarewhatyouare: Very funny. You have talent. You should be in show business.

Today on a LADY GAGA! et merde!!!

[@georgesseguy3105]

Jean Daniel est particulièrement désagréable à entendre. C'est la morsure du cabot à la statue de l'homme d'état.

[@Mark-yy2py]

Just as he did in Ireland, he tried to stir the pot in Quebec by encouraging a free and independent Quebec during a speech. No wonder FDR, Eisenhower and Churchill despised him.

[@BerigVintrange]

vive un Québec libre!

[@johnkeller6063]

I remember that

[@TheMotz55]

De Gaulle wasn't despised by FDR, Ike and Churchill. De Gaulle irritated them but they respected him.

[@Mark-yy2py]

@@TheMotz55 he nay have been respected as a leader, but he was considered an ingrate. He even irritated LBJ in 1966 when France withdrew from NATO.

[@redblack8414]

@@BerigVintrange Bravo.

[@user-ip3nh9pc1y]

Ho Chi Minh Oli valtio mies Ei jättänyt Maataan Sodan aikana Vietnamissa on Sotinut Ranska, Englanti, Yhdysvallat. Kaikki nämä maat On saanut turpaansa (Taistelivat kuin akat😂)

[@michelbardiaux7144]

The other half of France had quite a different take on this moment. Remember the satirical weekly Hara Kiri issuing a full front page titled "Tragic village dance in Colombey, 1 dead". This exceptional but irritating man deserved both the pathos AND the rotten tomatoes, I think.

[@domitiusafer]

It is one of the French paradoxes, the more time passes, the more the political choices of General De Gaulle, sometimes taken against the dominant opinion in France, are validated by his former political opponents, some of whom had even attempted assassination at the time. -Former supporters of Marshal Pétain recognized the relevance of his decision in June 1940 to oppose the armistice with Germany and to continue the struggle alongside the English, which was not obvious at the time after the episode of Mers El Kebir on July 3, 1940. -Former supporters of the"French Algeria and colonization recognize the relevance of its decision to decolonize in order to rid France of the economic burden represented by its colonies that encumbered its economic growth and prevent the majority Muslim population in Africa especially in Algeria does not become a majority in France because for De Gaulle maintaining French Algeria would have forced France to grant the right to vote to all Muslims in Algeria and not to a minority as at the time , so that with the Algerian Muslim demography, the Muslim population would have become the majority in France. Algerian independence prevented this. Its decision to endow France with atomic weapons and to bet on nuclear power plants to ensure the energy independence of France in case of crisis or conflict is today recognized as the most relevant notably with the Ukrainian Russian conflict with a Germany who abandoned nuclear power and became dependent on Russian gas. France is the 3rd country in number of nuclear warheads with the 2nd world maritime domain so that its nuclear submarines wanted by De Gaulle can have bases all over the world and that the French nuclear fire is able to destroy the USA and Russia because for De Gaulle it is not necessary to destroy his enemy several times when only one time is enough. For De Gaulle, the USA are not friends but allies of circumstance that can become hostile to France as Roosevelt showed, hence the need for France not to depend for its defence on the American nuclear shield and NATO but to have its own independent nuclear force, hence De Gaulle’s decision in 1966 to have France leave the integrated NATO commanderMoreover the decision to activate the French nuclear force belongs to the only president of the French republic and does not need the endorsement of the Americans, unlike the British nuclear force which was equipped with the nuclear weapon by the Americans , unlike France, which the Americans described as a rogue state under De Gaulle for having acquired the atomic bomb without their approval and without its use depending on the Americans.Paradoxically, De Gaulle, in the midst of the Cold War, would come closer in the 1960s to the USSR before renewing the traditional alliance of France with Russia advocated by Napoleon’s Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, which he deplored in 1935, the abandonment by France because of the pressures of the British anti-communist leaders and allowed Germany in 1940 unlike 1914 to launch its entire army on France without fear of being attacked in the east by the Russians. According to De Gaulle, the alliance with Russia allows France to "oppose Germany and the Anglo-Americans. De Gaulle is a pragmatist and not an ideologist and never spoke of the USSR but of Russia because according to him the Soviets are Russians before being communists and geopolitics is stronger than ideology.According to the formula of De Gaulle, "Russia will absorb communism as the blotter absorbs water". The fall of the communist regime of the USSR in 1991 will prove him right because Russia is still present and Gaullist President Chirac in 2003 will try to reactivate the alliance with Russia to oppose the American invasion of Iraq. -The constitution of the 5th Republic and De Gaulle’s decision to have the President of the Republic elected directly by direct universal suffrage by the French people is now unanimously accepted by all the French and almost all the political class, Even by De Gaulle’s political opponents, such as the socialist Mitterrand who came to power in 1981, will not touch the constitution of the 5th republic, which he had constantly criticized when he was in opposition. The constitution over time to demonstrate its flexibility to cohabit a president and a government of opposite political tendencies and the elected president to continue to govern despite the absence of a parliamentary majority as is currently the case, so that the constitution of the 5th Republic of 1958 after 66 years of existence is the French political regime is now the most stable since the French Revolution of 1789 before the 65 years of the 3rd Republic (1875-1940)

[@billiecrouse8002]

the english commentary is a lie.

[@rolandmotz8541]

Il était temps qu’il foute le camp !

[@pouspous5061]

Est-ce que Zemmour l’israélien connaît le général degaulle ??

[@paulwillard9687]

The British, commonwealth and USA led you to liberation not a General who gave up to the Third Reich within 2weeks and ran off to Britain to save his own skin.

[@MarkHarrison733]

France should have joined the Axis in 1936.

[@TechnoViking__]

1st 🥇

[@florinelenaradamilea]

the war of 1418? 😂

[@user-mx2uk1gt8h]

de gaulle n était pas une" icone" mot employé à tort et à travers

[@JohannPachelbel81]

In ww2 Charles de Gaules : We were invaded by the Germans😢 After ww2 Charles de Gaules : let us keep colonial Indochina😅

[@johnkeller6063]

I too after I eat a large lunch like to take a nap. Lol 🤣

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

He hated the English

[@davewatson2124]

Just another " leader " who deserted his country during a war.

[@sergiop746]

Um ditador arrogante

[@carlnash7200]

Hero Really? How So? Because he said so?

[@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643]

The immense majority of the french people, including his former opponents, admit de Gaulle was the main political man of the 20th century.

[@hernanmanzanomunoz1116]

Con respeto a los ciudadanos franceses. No me agradó el desempeño histórico del general y político Charles De Gaulle.

[@Balrog2005]

A quién le importa...a le agrado a mucha gente, incluso fuera de Francia.

[@abbevogler2619]

A 50% un génie, à 50% un imposteur.

[@taharkhelifi311]

On a jamais compris le comportement d'un grand homme comme le général de Gaulle envers les peuples colonisés lui qui a connu ce que c'est perdre la liberté perdre sa patrie, l'humiliation du colonisateur, bien vouloir du génocide. Dîtes moi pourquoi vous historiens vous ne soulevez pas ces Faces cachées il faut avoir le courage de le faire. Aussitôt que la France libérée avec l'aide des américains il s'attaque aux Vietnamiens avec des moyens qui dépassent toute imagination en même temps aux Algériens qui n'ont rien demandé que quelques droits promis à leurs incorporation au front en première lignes contre les allemands 45000 morts une mort plus atroce que les allemands ont infligé aux français personne n'a levé le petit doigt,pire encore en1954 il a traité les maquisards Algériens de bande de voyous qu'il faut exterminer il a failli mettre à genoux l'économie française raison pour laquelle il a joué la carte des négociations Il se permet encore une fois de faire des déclarations et cherche par tous les moyens de déstabiliser des peuples trahis par leurs conditions socio-économiques imposés par le colonialisme. Un grand pour la France oui mais pas pour les petits peuples opprimés qu'on appelé sujets autochtones, mais il a fait rater à la France toutes ces colonies il fallait répondre aux petits droits que ces peuples demandaient.

[@algeriandonna5031]

Icon ❌ Criminal ✅

[@sebastiaodavila9747]

No, my dear Algerian girl: the ❛❛F.N.L.❜❜ (« le Front National de Libération ») was a bunch of thugs and THEY were the true criminals who killed innocent people, both on the French and Algerian side. They even tried to assassinate De Gaulle but fortunately he survived. General De Gaulle could have crushed the ❛❛F.N.L.❜❜ like insects but he was still kind enough and he gave independence to your country (I deduce that you're Algerian given your nickname). Learn this: France has exhausted and ruined itself for the maintenance of its colonies and for Algeria in particular. France has built schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and various infrastructures in Algeria. France brought Western medicine which saved countless lives and thanks to that the demography of your country grew. France basically created Algeria: the Algerian State as it exists today wouldn't even exist without France. You're just blinded by hate. Like many Algerians, you indefinitely cultivate your visceral hatred of France because it is the only way to give meaning to your existence and legitimize your frustrations. Besides, if France is such an oppressive country, why do so many Algerians want to live in France?

[@branko4033]

A Croatian here. How does this guy, sitting out the WWII in London and in luxury even compare with Josip Broz Tito who was with his troops on the ground, all the time. And I never heard of a Nazi plan to kill this pompous French snake doctor. But the Nazi mounted entire offensive to capture or kill Tito is a well known historical fact.

[@youarewhatyouare]

He had the gaulle to Stand up to the british and out churchill the jarrow march hater right in his place well done charlie for having the gaulle