De Gaulle Born: France's Future Liberator and President
Charles de Gaulle was 49 when he made a BBC radio broadcast that almost nobody heard. France had just surrendered to Germany. He had no army, no government, and no authority. He told the French not to give up. Over the next four years he made himself, through pure intransigence, the face of French resistance. When the war ended he was the most important French politician of the century. He'd started with a microphone and a refusal to accept facts.
November 22, 1890
136 years ago
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