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Charles de Gaulle

1890 - 1970

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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles de Gaulle is the 5th most popular military personnel, the 20th most popular biography from France (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Military Personnel.

Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He is most famous for being the first president of the Fifth Republic.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles de Gaulle ranks 5 out of 2,058. Before him are Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, and Timur. After him are Chiang Kai-shek, Karl Dönitz, Bernard Montgomery, Adolf Eichmann, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Oda Nobunaga, and Erwin Rommel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Charles de Gaulle ranks 1. After him are Ho Chi Minh, Agatha Christie, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lawrence Bragg, Vyacheslav Molotov, Friedrich Paulus, Boris Pasternak, H. P. Lovecraft, Egon Schiele, Alfred Jodl, and Karel Čapek. Among people deceased in 1970, Charles de Gaulle ranks 1. After him are Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Erich Maria Remarque, António de Oliveira Salazar, Sukarno, Abraham Maslow, Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, and Max Born.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles de Gaulle ranks 20 out of 6,770. Before him are Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Louis XV of France (1710), Edward IV of England (1442), and Alexandre Dumas (1802). After him are Nostradamus (1503), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Henri Matisse (1869), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Caracalla (188), and Édith Piaf (1915).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles de Gaulle ranks 2. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412). After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769).

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