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.
They are in complete accord, however, on the prestige and position of General de Gaulle and his provisional government.
On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.
"General de Gaulle gave me a kiss on both cheeks, " he said.
Malraux's apotheosis came with General de Gaulle's return to power in 1958.
This is the moment when General de Gaulle restored the pride of France, the moment he created the founding myth of the post war French republic.
General de Gaulle made straight for the city centre and there, at the Hotel de Ville, he made his first speech to the citizens of a free Paris.
Two decades later, as President of France, General de Gaulle would telephone his American counterpart, President Lyndon Johnson to tell him that France had decided to withdraw from NATO.
But then, throughout his three decades in politics (he was 34 when, under General de Gaulle, he got his first ministerial job), Mr Chirac has always been marvellously inconsistent.
Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.
In 1945, General Charles De Gaulle was elected president of the French Provisional Government.
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