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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle

Date of Birth: 22 November 1890
Place of Birth: Lille, France
Died: 9 November 1970


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Old soldiers never die

This measure is one of several that could be put to referenda which Algerian politicians – like their political godfather the late French President General Charles de Gaulle – habitually win...


Paris plotters

But the plotters a group of mercenaries led by veteran troublemaker Staff Sergeant Ibrahim Coulibaly ('IB') were arrested not in Abidjan but by French security agents at Paris's Méridien Montparnasse hotel and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport...


Mon général

When asked about his future role he replies cryptically that like Charles de Gaulle he will be a general until he dies...


Totally elfin

It was founded by President Charles de Gaulle during decolonisation in the early 1960s as a political instrument...


Franc-zone to Euroland

Sentimental ties have faded especially since the death of Houphouët-Boigny in December 1993 and of some old French agents who remembered the days of General Charles de Gaulle...


Une autre entente

It is a reflection of how grave the region’s spiralling conflicts are that Britain and France are now working more closely on Africa policy than at any time since General Charles de Gaulle established a base for the Free French (Resistance) in West Africa in 1940...


Living dangerously

The latest state television advert in Nigeria celebrates the achievements of great military leaders who have pulled their countries back from the brink of disaster: men such as George Washington Charles de Gaulle Jerry Rawlings and yes President Suharto...


Francophone friends

The French Ministry of Cooperation is guided by protégés of Jacques Foccart the elderly Gaullist fixer who was President Charles de Gaulle's African éminence grise...


Lissouba lite

The new Prime Minister Charles David Ganao (known as 'CDG' an allusion to Charles de Gaulle) is in his sixties and was well known in the 1970s as Foreign Minister under the late President Marien Ngouabi when he spoke up vigorously for the independence of remaining colonies in Africa...


Pré carré revisted

Though his first stop was in Libreville Chirac kept his main speech for Brazzaville following his mentor General Charles de Gaulle who inaugurated France's post-war relations with Africa at the 1946 Brazzaville Conference...


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