Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. Following the 1958 Algiers…
20th Century · 8th January
Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
1959
Year of Event
67
Years Ago