In 1945, General Charles De Gaulle was elected president of the French Provisional Government.
As President, de Gaulle would go on to infuriate the nations who had liberated France.
It is general de Gaulle and the bronze casting captures his proud aloof air.
General de Gaulle, who saw it all so clearly, must be turning in his grave.
Charles de Gaulle held office until he was 78, Konrad Adenauer until he was 87.
De Gaulle was also right that the British have a different view of America.
As De Gaulle had done, Mitterrand was content to accept Henri into his circle of admirers.
She observed that the only person who could and did do that effectively was Charles de Gaulle.
France closed 2002 with the arrests of four suspected terrorists at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Paris's two main airports - Charles de Gaulle and Orly - are also operating at reduced capacity.
In 1944, Charles de Gaulle made his landmark appeal for a new relationship between France and Africa.
Gen de Gaulle described Europe as "a coach and horses, with Germany the horse and France the coachman".
If you had to compare him to an outrageous foreigner, de Gaulle would be more acceptable, if improbable.
It serves just 185 destinations, compared with over 200 from Paris's Charles de Gaulle and 300 from Frankfurt.
To manage France's African interests, then-President Charles de Gaulle created the African Cell, which reported directly to him.
Perhaps there is a bit of de Gaulle in Mr Netanyahu after all.
De Gaulle stands tall among a packed crowd of euphoric Parisians and speaks easily, effortlessly, lyrically, and without notes.
So is every man, woman, and child I have heard speak of de Gaulle or his government in Paris.
They are in complete accord, however, on the prestige and position of General de Gaulle and his provisional government.
Bristol Airport said all flights were operating as normal with the exception of the Paris Charles de Gaulle route.
No French leader from de Gaulle to Mitterrand acknowledged the state's part in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps.
Does that mean the bilateral relationship, cherished since the days of Adenauer and de Gaulle, is no longer special?
The French, with communists in General de Gaulle's government, were thought politically unreliable.
In 1943 he left France and eventually joined de Gaulle's government in exile.
Paul, New York-LaGuardia, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City and Tokyo-Narita.
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On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.
He liked to say that De Gaulle was one of his heroes, but as a politician rather than a soldier.
In 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle ruled out negotiations for an early British entry into the European Common Market.
De Gaulle claimed as an ancestor a knight who fought at Agincourt, although perhaps not hard enough as England won.
In 1966, French President Charles De Gaulle opened the world's first tidal power station at the Rance estuary in Brittany.
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