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Why General Charles de Gaulle still resonates

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June 22, 2026
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Why General Charles de Gaulle still resonates

On 18 June, 1940, General Charles de Gaulle appealed to the French to rally behind him and refuse collaboration with Nazi Germany. Eighty-six years later he's back in the spotlight thanks to the blockbuster biopic La Bataille de Gaulle. Historian Julian Jackson – whose acclaimed biography, A Certain Idea of France, inspired the film – says De Gaulle had a kind of planetary vision.  

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