During World War II, she deceived her watchful mother so she could take part in dangerous missions. Later, she founded a girls’ school in Ivory Coast. By Adam Nossiter Charles de Gaulle’s insistence ...

When Charles de Gaulle published the first volume of his war memoirs, in 1954, it looked like an acknowledgment that he no longer belonged to the present, but to history. His achievements during the ...

Key Points and Summary - France’s nuclear-powered carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) just underscored Paris’s blue-water credibility with a long Indo-Pacific deployment, exercising alongside U.S., ...

In the 1970s, the French Navy recognized the need to modernize its carrier fleet despite the fact that their current carriers, the Clemenceau and Foch, were only around a decade old. After a decade of ...

FOR 30 years, his destiny and that of France had been inseparably intertwined. For over a decade, he had presided over France in as rare an identification of ruler and ruled as modern history shows.

The leader must aim high, show that he has vision, act on a grand scale. —Charles de Gaulle (1932) There cannot be a couple at the head of state. Only one man can be in charge. Otherwise, the people ...