Charles de Gaulle was not the French prime minister. That job belonged to Paul Reynaud. De Gaulle had been undersecretary of state for defence in Reynaud’s government for less than two weeks.

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and ... “I would simply not be here if hundreds of thousands of young Americans had not landed on our beaches in Normandy.” ...

The eldest son of French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle has died on Wednesday ... school in Paris] had invited me to go out with some young girls. I was staying with my parents.