Charles de Gaulle
1890 CE–1970 CE · Lille, Nord, France
Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French forces against Nazi Germany during the Second World War and later became the founding President of the Fifth Republic. After France's defeat in 1940 he rejected the armistice and organized resistance from abroad, and he headed the provisional government from 1944 to 1946. Returning to power amid the crisis over Algeria in 1958, he established a new constitution and served as president from 1959 to 1969. He oversaw Algerian independence and an assertive, independent French foreign policy before resigning in 1969; he died the following year.
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Lille, Nord, France
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Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille on 22 November 1890, the third of five children.
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- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
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