MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles de Gaulle

1890 - 1970

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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 Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algerian War, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles de Gaulle has received more than 12,573,276 page views. His biography is available in 162 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 151 in 2019). Charles de Gaulle is the 5th most popular military personnel, the 15th most popular biography from France (up from 17th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Military Personnel.

Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He is most famous for being the first president of the Fifth Republic.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles de Gaulle ranks 5 out of 2,058. Before him are Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Timur, and Joan of Arc. After him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Charles Martel, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Spartacus, Adolf Eichmann, and Oda Nobunaga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Charles de Gaulle ranks 1. After him are Agatha Christie, H. P. Lovecraft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, Friedrich Paulus, Vyacheslav Molotov, Boris Pasternak, Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, and Fritz Lang. Among people deceased in 1970, Charles de Gaulle ranks 1. After him are Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Gamal Abdel Nasser, António de Oliveira Salazar, Erich Maria Remarque, Abraham Maslow, Jimi Hendrix, Yukio Mishima, Max Born, Sukarno, and Alexander Kerensky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles de Gaulle ranks 15 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XVI of France (1754), Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), Montesquieu (1689), Louis XV of France (1710), and Molière (1622). After him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alain Delon (1935), Henri Matisse (1869), John Calvin (1509), and Paul Cézanne (1839).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles de Gaulle ranks 2. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412). After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean Lannes (1769).

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