Place du General De Gaulle in Lille |
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9
November 1970), in France commonly referred to as Général
de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. Charles
de Gaulle was the third of five children in a morally conservative
but socially progressive Roman Catholic family. Born in Lille (capital of the Nord Pas de Calias region),
de Gaulle grew up and was educated in Paris, at the College Stanislas,
and also for a short time in Belgium. Called to form a government
in 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's
first president, serving from 1958 to 1969. His political ideology
is known as Gaullism, and it has been a major influence in subsequent
French politics. |
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