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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles de Gaulle

1890 - 1970

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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( də GOHL, də GAWL, French: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] ; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army 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 11,348,137 page views. His biography is available in 151 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2019). Charles de Gaulle is the 5th most popular military personnel (up from 6th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from France (up from 20th 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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  • 151

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles de Gaulle ranks 5 out of 1,468. Before him are Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, and Timur. After him are Karl Dönitz, Spartacus, Erwin Rommel, Charles Martel, Adolf Eichmann, Themistocles, and William Wallace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Charles de Gaulle ranks 2. Before him is Agatha Christie. After him are Ho Chi Minh, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vyacheslav Molotov, Boris Pasternak, Friedrich Paulus, H. P. Lovecraft, Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, and Kurt Lewin. Among people deceased in 1970, Charles de Gaulle ranks 1. After him are Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Maslow, Gamal Abdel Nasser, António de Oliveira Salazar, Jimi Hendrix, Erich Maria Remarque, Yukio Mishima, Sukarno, Hjalmar Schacht, and Max Born.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles de Gaulle ranks 17 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis XVI of France (1754), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Nostradamus (1503), Molière (1622), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900). After him are John Calvin (1509), Auguste Comte (1798), Alain Delon (1935), Émile Durkheim (1858), Honoré de Balzac (1799), and Napoleon III (1808).

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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), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045).

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