Charles de Gaulle: The Leader of Free France

Difficile de retracer en 20 minutes la vie de De Gaulle.Ceci dit malgre les insuffisances et les erreurs du commentaire,celui ci a l'avantage d'etre plutot objectif.Donc Merci

Condolences to him

My grandparent❤❤❤

French never won a war ever . read a HISTORY BOOK OR WATCH THE NEWS

the leader of free france and dictator of all of france

May have been ass least he cared about France 🇫🇷 the man was a patriot even though FDR and Churchill couldn't stand him... After WW hes a reason France prospered...

Great video, well done.

Unpopular opinion: he was an obstinate arse who tried to isolate France from its Allies and then whined they didn’t wanna give him everything he wanted on a silver platter

I have to say that, while it is true that DeGaulle believed himself to be the 'smartest one in the room', its probably because he was. His ability to immediately and incisively understand and describe the character of any man he met is amazing. His comment on Petain was brilliant: 'He (Petain) led a life that was successively banal, then glorious and then deplorable, but never mediocre.' was just genius. Ditto his description of Stalin. He gets my vote as one of the most successful (not to say lovable) political leaders of the 20th Century, along with Adenauer and Franco.

how far the bbc has fallen.

By every measure he was as great a leader as Churchill or Roosevelt. Maybe even greater. Just less discussed in the Anglophone world.

All he did, quietly, he did for Bernadette his daughter, sheltering her from the outrage that war was, and choosing a modest village funeral and burial similar to hers, the burial next to her. He doted on her and Alsace-Lorraine. It is not the first, nor will it be the last time, France owes its rally to the sweetest passionate prayers of a most innocent girl or woman. And the defiance and courage of an autistic leader.

🌐My Father saw a picture of him anywhere, he'd die laughing, shake his head and say I don't know who hated that effete pompous jackass more, Ike or Bradley. Said they'd make decisions, DeGaulle came in, told everyone what to do, they'd extoll his virtues agree and ignore everything he said when he left 😂 lotta stories about him.. as helpful as hip pockets in your underwear, the Maquis and everyone else hated him springs to mind.👺

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France was to Algeria what the Germans were to France.

You left out the Algiers Putch

Unapologetic nationalist, refusing to learn other languages, actually honoring his ancestors instead of desecrating them, imprisoning complainers, gigantic French nose, first use of “cuck” as an insult. De Gaulle was BASED!

Correction: You said he complained to his wife about a pain in the neck, but he complained that his wife was a pain in the neck. Lol, wordplay.

i ve watched every sec of this great life story in a nutshell of Mr De Gaulle!!well done

it is difficult compare him with his contemporary, because of his circumstances yet i feel he independently was above the difficult and hard surrounding history of his time. He in my opinion make the best use of superior knowledge and applied intellegence

Coward who fled to England during the second world war

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He should just anglicize the name and call him Charlie Deagal

De Gaulle was a pathetic anti-Semite.

I watched this to find anything redeeming about him but I come away further convinced that de Gaulle was a baby who fled the war, contributed nothing to French liberation but took sole credit for it, and resigned numerous times when he didn’t get his way. In other words, the typical French male.

this dude embodied every French stereotype lmao

Where are your sources?

I enjoy the nickname 'the great asparagus'

Charles de Gaulle should have been more grateful to the British because the British was the only reason that France got treated like a Victoria's Ally of world war II because the United States wanted to treat them like either a Concord Nation or a collaborator because they was a collaborator BC France that's collaboration

Thank you for the video. My grand mother often told me tales of his battles while looking at the 14th of july broadcasted on tv. This french fierce determination and courage always been shared in the family.
Your video is simple and long enough to talk a lot about his life. Plus it helps me with english language. Im subscribing.

1080p60 Simon is different lol

Hitler should've used Franz Hadler to hold France.

This is a great video, first time in awhile that i didn’t see an Englishman pull punches on a French leader.

Mon soutien est pour Monsieur Macron : le meilleur président de la Ve République ! Même De Gaulle n’est pas à son niveau => sa politique intérieure, sa diplomatie internationale : tout me pousse vers lui… En fait, je crois que je l’aime

I watched with intrest to hear more about de Gaulle... but francly comparing him with Napoleon.!?.. come on it is a joke. I was really curios why this guy has so much attention in France, seems to me was not special at all but the opsite, was wounded so as 10mil other participants and wow speaking at BBC radio from across the chanell... yeah grate leader, Napoleon itself (not). France own everithig it is today to Napoleon is as simple as that... yet I visit Paris recently and seen no status of him, not any boulevards or at least a metro station with his name. Sorry french guys, this is not impressive at all :)

Hey, you forgot to mention the assassination attempts on his life.

a lot of bs

Ah yes. The last of the paladins

whenever theres a long list of battles fought... go for De Gaulle...

Charles de Gaulle is Greatest French Leader and Hero of Nation ever live 🇫🇷

How did the assassins miss him. He's a bloody giant.

so helpful - Thank you!

France has a long list of lost wars, Boris Johnson in his election campaign once joked about invading France and every English peasant and common got serious and enthusiastic on the very idea of mincing the garlic 🧄 chewers 🤣😂🤣

"distrust of the countries nation enemy, the British" this isn't exactly true, yes he distrusted the British establishment and England as a nation and kingdom, but he always loved Scotland and had a fondness for her people, the auld alliance is still celebrated in both countries typically around that time (even though it is still celebrated to this day), and the man himself did a speech during June 1942 in Edinburugh saying "I do not think that a Frenchman could have come to Scotland at any time without being sensible of a special emotion. Scarcely can he set foot in this ancient and glorious land before he finds countless natural affinities between your country and ours dating from the very earliest times. In the same moment, awareness of the thousand links, still living and cherished, of the Franco-Scottish Alliance, the oldest alliance in the world, leaps to his mind.

When I say "Franco-Scottish Alliance," I am thinking, firstly, of course, of that close political and military entente which, in the Middle Ages, was established between our ancient monarchy and yours.

I am thinking of the Scottish blood which flowed in the veins of our kings and of the French blood which flowed in the veins of your kings, of glory shared on past battlefields, from the siege of Orleans, raised by Joan of Arc, to Valmy, where Goethe recognised that a new age was dawning for the world.

In every combat where for five centuries the destiny of France was at stake, there were always men of Scotland to fight side by side with men of France, and what Frenchmen feel is that no people has ever been more generous than yours with its friendship.

Yet in our old alliance there was more than a common policy, more than marriages and fighting deeds. There were not only the Stuarts, the Queens of France and Scotland, Kennedy, Berwick, Macdonald, and the glorious Garde écossaise. There were also a thousand ties of spirit and soul. How could we forget the mutual inspiration of French and Scottish poets, or the influence of men like Locke and Hume on our philosophy? How could we fail to recognise what is common to the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the doctrines of Calvin? How could we hide the influence which the great Walter Scott has exercised over the receptive mind of French youth? How could we ignore all the exchanges of ideas, feelings, customs, and even words so frequent between two peoples joined by a natural friendship, a friendship of which a visit to Edinburgh affords such ample proof?

This friendship and understanding which Frenchmen have found in Scotland throughout history are to-day more precious than ever. Undoubtedly, they are mingled at the present time with the joint aims, efforts, and ideals which go to make up the alliance between France and Great Britain. But I think I can say, without giving cause for offence, that although mingled, they are not lost in the mingling, and they retain their special character, just as in a bouquet a single flower still keeps its own perfume and colour.

That the soil of France enfolds lovingly the thousands and thousands of Scots whose blood was shed with that of our own soldiers during the last war, I can affirm. The monument to their memory on the hill of Buzancy has, I know, never been more frequently bedecked with flowers than since the new invasion. If the roses of France are bloodstained to-day, they still cluster round the thistle of Scotland. For my part, I can say that the comradeship of arms, sealed on the battlefield of Abbeville in May-June, 1940, between the French armoured division which I had the honour to command and the gallant 51st Scottish Division under General Fortune, played its part in the decision which I made to continue the fight at the side of the Allies to the end, come what may.

We live at a time when every friendship counts, especially those which have lasted longest. That which you extend to us in the difficult task my comrades and I have undertaken affords comforting proof that, like your forefathers, you know where the real France stands and you have kept your faith in her future. We, like our forefathers, will know how to repay.

And that is why, in thanking you for the truly touching reception which you have given me here, I close by quoting the old motto of the Compagnie écossaise: Omni modo fidelis"

Long live the auld alliance//vive la vieille alliance//Gu ma fada beò an caidreachas auld 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🇲🇫

His best asset must be the skill of survival.
After all those failures and deaths of other men, he kept living and made it to the top as the "last guy" alive.

Certainly doesn't come across as a very likeable guy !

1/3 of France's men went to heaven with their Jeanne D'Arc, 1/3 of them followed their emperor fight to hell, 1/3 of them died in Verdun's trenches, and the last man, facing the ruins, clutched his badge tightly, his name was Charles de Gaulle，Since then, there has been no man in France

I love Charles De Gaulle so much I name My son after him.