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De Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie
France under De Gaulle
1968 crises
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Berlin crisis
biography of De Gaulle
constitutional referendum
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fictional assassination attempt in The Day of the Jackal
foreign relations
influence on Jacques Chirac
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picture, De Gaulle’s June 18, 1940 Radio Address
post-war politics (1948)
presidency of France
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resignation
return to power (1955)
table of French Presidents and Prime Ministers
withdrawal from politics
World War I, taken prisoner at Verdun
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1958: France: The Constitutional Referendum
On Sept. 28, 1958, all French citizens, that is, all legal residents of France and the associated territories within what was still the French Union, were called upon to vote for or against the draft constitution of the Fifth Republic, proposed by the government of Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
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