Charles de Gaulle's tenure as the 18th president of France officially began on 8 January 1959. In 1958, during the Algerian War, he came out of retirement...
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The foreign policy of Charles de Gaulle covers the diplomacy of Charles de Gaulle as French leader 1940–1946 and 1959–1969, along with his followers and...
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1958 French presidential election (redirect from Election of Charles de Gaulle)
List of indirect presidential elections in France Presidency of Charles de Gaulle Philip Thody (1989). French Caesarism from Napoleon I to Charles de Gaulle...
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against...
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Petit-Clamart attack (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time. The attack was carried out on 22 August...
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At the outbreak of World War II, Charles de Gaulle was put in charge of the French Fifth Army's tanks (five scattered battalions, largely equipped with...
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French Fifth Republic (redirect from Fifth Republic of France)
current republican system of government. It was established on 4 October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. The Fifth...
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Georges Pompidou (redirect from Presidency of Georges Pompidou)
as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974. He previously served as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle from 1962 to...
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President Charles de Gaulle, upon his return to power in 1958, solidified the initial vision into the well-defined concept of a fully independent Force de Frappe...
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1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign minister he played the leading role in the critical Franco-German treaty of cooperation in...
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Anne-Marie de Gaulle (French pronunciation: [ivɔn ʃaʁlɔt an maʁi də ɡol]; née Vendroux [vɑ̃dʁu]; 22 May 1900 – 8 November 1979) was the wife of Charles de Gaulle...
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Charles de Gaulle's trip to South America was a series of state visits made by the first president of the French Fifth Republic to South America between...
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Vive le Québec libre (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
Quebec!') was a phrase in a speech delivered by French President Charles de Gaulle in Montreal, Quebec on July 24, 1967, during an official visit to...
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1965 French presidential election (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
incumbent president Charles de Gaulle would be re-elected, but the election was notable for the unexpectedly strong performance of his left-wing challenger...
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Martel affair (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
throughout French military intelligence and even within French President Charles de Gaulle's cabinet. He claimed that these agents had access to any NATO document...
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Constantine Plan (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
introduced in 1958 by President Charles de Gaulle during the height of the Algerian War in an attempt to quell uprisings of Algerian independence. The plan...
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French Community (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
caused the end of the Fourth Republic. General Charles de Gaulle was recalled to power and a new constitution was written. Initially De Gaulle seemed to confirm...
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Michel Debré (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from...
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Évian Accords (redirect from Agreements of Evian)
sanctions for any acts committed prior to the ceasefire. French President Charles de Gaulle wanted to maintain French interests in the area, including industrial...
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Résistancialisme (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
emerge. Georges Pompidou who had not been part of the résistance, succeeded de Gaulle to the French Presidency in 1969. In a desire to formally end "this...
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political party of France that existed from 1967 to 1976. The UDR was the successor to Charles de Gaulle's earlier party, the Rally of the French People...
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1969 French constitutional referendum (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
was rejected by 52.4% of voters, and failure of the amendments led to President Charles de Gaulle's resignation. The first part of the project aimed to...
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known as the putsch of the generals (Putsch des généraux), was a failed coup d'état intended to force French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon French...
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Dirigisme (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
coinage of the term Trente Glorieuses (the "Glorious Thirty [years]"). Dirigisme flourished under the conservative governments of Charles de Gaulle and Georges...
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Trente Glorieuses (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
('The Glorious Three'), the three days of revolution on 27–29 July 1830 in France. As early as 1944, Charles de Gaulle introduced a dirigiste economic policy...
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1962 French presidential election referendum (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
members of Parliament, members of the departmental assemblies, and representatives of cities, towns and villages (such as mayors). Charles de Gaulle was elected...
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Plan Calcul (category Presidency of Charles de Gaulle)
activities. The plan was approved in July 1966 by President Charles de Gaulle, in the aftermath of two key events that made his government worry about French...
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Saint-Pierre, Nantes In the 1960s under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, eight large regional cities of France (Lille, Nancy, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nantes...
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website of the French Presidency. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2022. "Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970)". Official website of the French Presidency. 15...
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became a presidential residence in 1968 during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970). In 1985 François Mitterrand invited Chancellor Helmut Kohl to...
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