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The enthusiastic reception from the population confirmed his popularity in France, [1] which discouraged the United States from placing France under their administration. . The Provisional Government of the French Republic, officially formed on June 3, 1944 in Algiers, the capital of French Algeria, under De Gaulle’s leadership as the successor to the French Committee of National Liberation ...
Lt. General Vernon A. Walters, a military attaché of Dwight Eisenhower and later military attaché in France from 1967 to 1973, noted the strong relationship between de Gaulle and Eisenhower, de Gaulle's unconditional support of Eisenhower during the U-2 incident, and de Gaulle's strong support of John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Guiter and Elf enjoyed the support of Charles de Gaulle, the president of France at the time. [13]: 87 The Gaullist philosophy of de Gaulle and his successor, Georges Pompidou, encouraged France to grow self-reliant. Elf was located in the strategically valuable oil sector, and thus became "an instrument of the national independence and the ...
One of de Gaulle's grandsons, also named Charles de Gaulle, was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004, his last tenure being for the far-right National Front. [187] The younger Charles de Gaulle's move to the anti-Gaullist National Front was widely condemned by other family
The Sixth Republic (French: Sixième République) is a potential successor to the present republican system in France, proposed as a solution to alleged issues of the current Fifth French Republic. Following 82.6% of voters supporting Charles de Gaulle's proposal in the constitutional referendum , [ 1 ] the Fifth Republic was established on 4 ...
The SAC (French: Service d'Action Civique; or Civic Action Service), officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and Pierre Debizet , a former Resistant and official director of the group.
Georges Pompidou, the 19th president of France, died on 2 April 1974 at the age of 62, after having suffered from Waldenström macroglobulinemia, a form of blood cancer, for several years. He was the fourth French president to die in office, and the first in the history of the Fifth Republic .
The following is a list [1] [2] [3] of presidents of France sorted by length of tenure. François Mitterrand was President for 14 years. Jacques Chirac was President for 12 years. Charles de Gaulle was President for 10 years, provisional head of state for 2 years, and leader of Free France for 4 years.