Charles de Gaulle
Born: 1890-11-22
Place of birth: Lille, France
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 Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (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 to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.
Filmography
The American Friend
2002
Espionage
1963
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
2012
Mitterrand et la télé
2021
De Gaulle, le monarque et le Parlement
2020
The Algerian War
1972
Apocalypse: The Second World War
2009
The Vietnam War
2017
The Lovely Month of May
1963
It Was the War of Algeria
2022
The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
2021
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
2020
Décolonisations : du sang et des larmes
2020
Des Français libres, sauver l'honneur
2020
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
2019
The Phoney War
2019
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française
2019
1958: Those Who Said No
2018