He became head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic in June 1944, the interim government of France following its liberation.
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Despite frosty relations with the United States, he generally had Winston Churchill's support, and emerged as the undisputed leader of Free France. He led the Free French Forces and later headed the French National Liberation Committee against the Axis. Refusing to accept his government's armistice with Germany, de Gaulle fled to England and exhorted the French to resist occupation and to continue the fight in his Appeal of 18 June. During the German invasion of May 1940, he led an armoured division which counterattacked the invaders he was then appointed Undersecretary for War. During the interwar period, he advocated mobile armoured divisions. He was a decorated officer of the First World War, wounded several times and later taken prisoner by the Germans at Verdun. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was re-elected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.īorn in Lille, he graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1912. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( / d ə ˈ ɡ oʊ l, d ə ˈ ɡ ɔː l/ də GOHL, də GAWL, French: i 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), commonly known in France and other countries as le général de Gaulle (General de Gaulle) or simply as le Général (the General), was a French army officer and statesman who led Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France.
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