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I am extremely impressed with this offering. As an aged individual, I am so pleased to see on YOUTUBE these presentations of the historical past which each new viewing generations SHOULD view!!! De Gaulle is an extremely important figure of the 20th century. How humbling to hear that he would have wished to meet Ho Chi Minh!!!! How I wish that our current generation of viewers could understand the significance of de Gaulle's meeting with de Valera in Ireland! This was wonderful, and I thank you for this significant historical offering to your viewers. WELL DONE!!!! My name is Peter & thank you for your efforts!!!!
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I find the title Général de Gaulle is no more used, even in the comments. To remind that he, colonel, was named "temporary General of brigade by his close friend Paul Reynaud, the president of the consule for 3 months. On June 18 1940 he, colonel, presents himself as general. On 19 he was dismissed from the army. After the liberation, the army offered him a small retirement pension as colonel but he refused. This made him a civilian since June 19 1940 with theater military uniform of general.
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@johnjeanb
1 week ago
Frenchman here: Charles de Gaulle was a giant and he played a major role in France's history. He somewhat wiped-out the 1940 humiliation, in 5 years he totally put back France on its feet from a war-torn (Algeria, Indochina, etc), bankrupt, politically unstable country, into a properous one who was among the first to pay back all its WW2 creditors; This insolent economic and political success was an insult to all opposition parties. Success was obtained by rigor and total absence of clientelism (to be wealthy, you must roll-up your sleeves and not whine all the time). After May 68 which was a terrible shock for everyone (all that wealth was taken for granted and now, on with perpetual holidays and the "il est interdit d'interdir" culture). De Gaulle challenged the French people in a "All-or-Nothing" coup with his referendum on "régionalisation". Was it a pretext (ground-for or an excuse) for De Gaulle to leave center stage? He was 79 years old which is a pretty decent time to stop working so intensely. This man has been mentally in battledress all his life, fighting wars, writing books, escaping assassination attemps with " un flegme Britannique" (a British coolness with stiff upper lip). De Gaulle forsaw things to come decades before and he was so immense that all people around him looked like dwarfs.
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