Julian Jackson - A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

Julian Jackson

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A CERTAIN IDEA OF FRANCE

The Life of Charles de Gaulle

PART ONE
De Gaulle before De Gaulle, 18901940

PART TWO
Exile, 19401944

PART THREE
In and Out of Power, 19441958

PART FOUR
Republican Monarch, 19591965

PART FIVE
Towards the End, 19661970

Items in the Archives de Gaulle, Paris, are reproduced by kind permission of the de Gaulle family.

. Henri de Gaulle, 1886. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. Jeanne Maillot, holding a photograph of her four sons, c.1920. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. Charles de Gaulle with his siblings, Lille, c.18891900. Archives de Gaulle, Paris /Bridgeman Images

. Charles de Gaulle and his father in the Rhetoric class at the Immacule Conception school, rue Vaugirard, 190405. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. De Gaulle as a student of Stanilas College, 1909. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. Cover of Journal des Voyages featuring an illustration for de Gaulles short story, La Fille de lAgha, 6 February 1910

. Monument at Le Bourget, 1911, postcard. Private Collection

. Captain de Gaulle convalescing, after January 1915. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. De Gaulles sketch map of his first escape from Rosenberg, 1917. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. Marriage of Charles de Gaulle and Yvonne Vendroux, Calais, 6 April 1921. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. Capitain de Gaulle teaching at Saint-Cyr, caricature from Triomphe, 1921. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. De Gaulle with Anne on the beach at Bnodet, c.1933. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Images

. Anne de Gaulle with her governess Marguerite Potel, at Villa Les Oliviers, Algiers, 1943. Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman

Cover of Vers lArme de Metier, 1st French edition, 1934. Private Collection

. Colonel Emile Mayer, 1935. Collection familiale.

. De Gaulle with President Albert Lebrun, 1939. Photo12/Alamy

. The cabinet of Paul Reynaud, May 1940. Roger-Viollet Collection/Getty Images

. De Gaulle at the BBC, 1940. Muse Nicphore Nipce, Ville de Chalon-sur-Sane/adoc-photos

. Free French poster, London, July 1940. Roger-Viollet Collection/TopFoto

. De Gaulle at Carlton Gardens, London 1941. Photo12/Alamy

. De Gaulle dining with Major-General Sir Edward Spears, London, Summer 1940. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

. De Gaulle inspecting French troops in Whitehall, London, 14 July 1940. Topical Press/Getty Images

. De Gaulle and Yvonne in their library at Rodinghead House, Little Gaddesden, near Berkhamsted, 1941. Bettmann/Getty Images

. Posing for the press in the garden at Rodinghead, 1941. Pictorial Press/Alamy

. False ID papers of Jean Moulin on his arrival in London, 1941. Mmorial Leclerc-Muse Jean Moulin/Roger-Viollet/TopFoto

. Legionnaires of the Free French Forces attack the German lines at Bir Hakeim, Libya, June. Imperial War Museum, London. IWM (E 13313)

. De Gaulle with Allied leaders at Anfa, Morocco, 25 January 1943. FDR Presidential Library & Museum (61-465/22)

. The French National Committee, Carlton Gardens, London, May 1943. Apic/Getty Images

. De Gaulle setting off for Bayeux, 14 June 1944. adoc-photos/Getty Images

. De Gaulle shaking hands with civilians in Bayeux, 14 June 1944. Imperial War Museum, London. IWM (B 5482)

. De Gaulles speech at Bayeux, 14 June 1944. Lt. S J Beadell IWM/Getty Images

. Parade on the Champs-Elyses celebrating the liberation of Paris, 26th August 1944. Robert Doisneau/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

. De Gaulle with crowds on the Champs-Elyses, 26 August 1944. Robert Capa International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

. De Gaulle with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, Paris, 11 November 1944. AP Photo/Rex Shutterstock

De Gaulle and Churchill, 11 November 1944. Camera Press, London

. De Gaulle arriving at Moscow station, December 1944. Roger-Viollet/TopFoto

. Molotov signing the Franco-Soviet Treaty, 11 December 1944. Apic/Getty Images

. De Gaulle, Antibes, January 1946. The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

. De Gaulle speaking at an RPF rally, Vincennes, 1947. Gamma/Keystone-France/Getty Images

. De Gaulle visiting Lille, 1949. Maurice Zalewski/adoc photos

. Madame de Gaulle shopping in Morgat, Finisterre, June 1949. Rex Shutterstock

. Aerial view of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, 1956. Ullsteinbild/Getty Images

. First draft in de Gaulles hand of his Memoires de guerre. Text Plon, 1954, reproduced by kind permission of the de Gaulle family. Bibliothque nationale de France, Paris.

. Front cover of LEcho dOran, 5 June 1956. Centre de documentation Historique sur lAlgrie, Maroc et Tunisie, Aix-en-Provence

. The four putschist generals, Algiers, 29 April 1961. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

. Television broadcast by de Gaulle condemning the coup in Algeria, 23 April 1961. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

. Michel Debr, 1959. Maurice Zalewski/adoc-photos

. Georges Pompidou, 1958. AFP/Getty Images

. Maurice Couve de Murville with de Gaulle in Poland, 1967. Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos

. Andr Malraux with de Gaulle at a Mexican art exhibition, Paris, 1962. Paris Match Archive/Getty Images

. President Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroon leaves the Elyse Palace, with Jacques Foccart in the background, 1967. AFP/Getty Images

. De Gaulle at the monument to the Free French, Mont-Valrian, 18 June 1964. Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

. The Panthonization of Jean Moulin, Paris, December 1964. Roger-Viollet/TopFoto

. De Gaulle with adoring crowds, Millau, Midi-Pyrnes, 1961. Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos

. On the election trail, Seine-et-Oise, 1965. Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

. De Gaulle greeting Konrad Adenauer on his arrival at Colombey, September 1958. Ullsteinbild/TopFoto

The de Gaulles visiting the Macmillans at Birch Grove, East Sussex, November 1961. Georges Menager/Paris Match Archive/Getty Images

. De Gaulles speech vetoing Britains application to the European Community, 14 January 1963. adoc-photos

. Official visit to Mexico, March 1964. Paul Slade/Paris Match Archive/Getty Images

. Official visit to Moscow, 1966. Rex Shutterstock

. Military parade at the Olympic Stadium, Pnom Penh, Cambodia, August 1966. Georges Menager/Paris Match Archive/Getty Images

. Official visit to Quebec, Canada, July 1967. Alain Nogues/Sygma/Getty Images

. Street barricades, Paris, May 1968. Bettmann/Getty Images

. Salaires Legers, Chars Lourds, poster showing de Gaulle as Hitler, Paris, May 1968.