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Portrait of the general who led the Free French Forces during World War II and was two times Prime Minister of France. Narrated by Henry Fonda.

From "Mémoires de Guerre" by De Gaulle: "To my mind, France cannot be France without greatness."

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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic, after the promulgation of a new Constitution, in 1958 and served as its first president from 1959 to 1969. In addition, he was a promoter of Franco-German reconciliation and one of the influential figures in the history of the process of building the European Union.