Charles de Gaulle
Acting · 79 years old
Lille, France
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.
Known For
The American Friend
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
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Mitterrand et la télé
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De Gaulle, le monarque et le Parlement
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Apocalypse: The Second World War
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The Vietnam War
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
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The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
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1958: Those Who Said No
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Des Français libres, sauver l'honneur
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française
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Pétain, such a popular hero
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The Phoney War
Self - Army Colonel (archive footage)
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
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The Lovely Month of May
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It Was the War of Algeria
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Décolonisations : du sang et des larmes
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A Grin Without a Cat
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Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West
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Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune