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De Gaulle at the Barricades

The Europeans in particular the French complained about what General Charles de Gaulle termed the exorbitant privilege of the US dollar.

PARIS Fifty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle seized power in France in what was, in essence, a legal coup d etat.

Charles de Gaulle was born 120 years ago in Lille.

Charles de Gaulle has governed France for 10 years.

Charles de Gaulle has governed France for 10 years.

This became known in Poland as the Western Betrayal.

In his famous University of Zurich speech in 1946, Winston Churchill urged that The first step in the re creation of the European Family must be a partnership between France and Germany. Franco German reconciliation, guided by the leadership of men like General Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, made post war Europe's amazing successes possible.

Franco German reconciliation, guided by the leadership of men like General Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, made post war Europe's amazing successes possible.

De Gaulle was at Colombey, but returned immediately to Paris.

Charles de Gaulle took France out of the NATO military alliance in 1966.

This is why de Gaulle is almost certain to be on any list of great leaders.

But de Gaulle later resigned of his own volition, over an issue of minor importance.

In his memoirs, de Gaulle stated his preference for restoring the monarchy after the Liberation.

As Charles de Gaulle forecast, It is not any European statesman who will unite Europe.

As Charles de Gaulle forecast, It is not any European statesman who will unite Europe. Europe will be united by the Chinese.

A military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in 1923, and he ran Spain as a military dictatorship.

Indeed, through much of the Cold War, de Gaulle appeared to want to avoid having to choose sides between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Forty years ago, Charles de Gaulle said Non to Britain's request to join the European Community.

Indeed, measured against today s standards, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower were comparatively authoritarian leaders.

In fact, the worldviews that de Gaulle and Churchill established for their countries turned out to be a little too influential.

Charles de Gaulle prevailed politically after ending French colonial rule in Algeria.

When France first invited Britain to join the infant European enterprise, a decade before General de Gaulle barred the door, the supercilious mandarins in Britain's Treasury ensured that Britain would indignantly reject the offer.

Yes, General. Yes, General.

Former French president Valéry Giscard d Estaing once famously complained about America s exorbitant privilege.

First, few leaders write well, though there are exceptions, like Nehru, Churchill, and de Gaulle.

LONDON Two hundred years have passed since the battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon s calamitous defeat made such a huge dent in his country s self image that General Charles de Gaulle, in his history of the French army, simply omitted it.

What de Gaulle despised about the Fourth Republic was what he dubbed the regime of the parties, which put their own interests above the national interest.

Is today s Union prepared to reverse a course first charted by such titans as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer four decades ago?

The ailing French republic s political leaders hoped that de Gaulle could end the Algerian war, yet keep Algeria French.

As de Gaulle wished, the French president has powers without equal in any other Western democracy.

The Ingenious General

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Indeed, while it is a much disputed question, de Gaulle was probably right about America s lack of commitment to the nuclear defense of Europe.

However, January 15, 1541 saw Cartier supplanted by Jean François de La Rocque de Roberval, a Huguenot courtier and friend of the king named as the first lieutenant general of French Canada.

The war in Algeria played the key role in enabling de Gaulle to return to power in May 1958, at the age of 67.

Much like British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, de Gaulle gave the French a new worldview that established their place in the post war global order.

The French were Israel's greatest supporters until President Charles de Gaulle turned away from the Jewish state after the Six Day War in 1967.

You're, well, you're General Powell.

The general inspected the troops.

Is Mary's husband a general?

Remarkable propagandist that he was, de Gaulle convinced the French that the Fourth Republic was a disaster a canard that has remained common wisdom ever since.

Summoning Massu s successor, General Jean Crépin, de Gaulle told him, The Europeans do not want the Arabs to make a choice, but the Muslims do not want to be Bretons.

It is absurd to suggest that European visionaries such as Adenauer and de Gaulle failed to realize the consequences of their decision to admit Turkey as an associate member of the EEC.