De Gaulle, by Julian Jackson (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 928 pp., $39.95) Charles de Gaulle was perhaps the most thoughtful and impressive statesman of the twentieth century. His only ...

One cannot talk long about the liberation of Paris, which culminated on Aug. 25, 1944, without stumbling over the gargantuan figure of Charles de Gaulle, who would go on from that day to become the ...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional ...

Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle (born 28 December 1921) is a French retired admiral and senator. He is the eldest child and only son of General Charles de Gaulle, the first president of the ...

PARODYING Marshal Foch, who once observed that Communism is a disease of defeated countries, a cynic might be tempted to say that memoir-writing is a malady of defeated generals. But the experience of ...

De Gaulle. By Julian Jackson. Belknap Press; 928 pages; $39.95. Published in Britain as “A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle”; Allen Lane; £35. WHEN Emmanuel Macron posed for his ...

How Charles de Gaulle’s story became a collective fairy tale that the French have agreed to believe in. Picture him as a legend, Joan of Arc in drag. A great nation is conquered by its historic enemy ...