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 ...

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 ...

When Charles de Gaulle published the first volume of his war memoirs, in 1954, it looked like an acknowledgment that he no longer belonged to the present, but to history. His achievements during the ...

Pathé, the revered French studio behind “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo,” has revealed a teaser for “De ...

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 ...