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Part One : De Gaule Before De Gaulle, 1890-1940. Beginnings, 1890-1908 -- A regret that will never leave me, 1908-1918 -- Rebuilding a career, 1919-1932 -- Making a mark, 1932-1939 -- The Battle of France, September 1939-June 1940 -- Part Two : Exile, 1940-1944. Rebellion, 1940 -- Survival, 1941 -- Inventing Gaullism -- On the world stage, September 1941-June 1942 -- Fighting France, July-October 1942 -- Power struggles, November 1942-November 1943 -- Building a state in exile, July 1943-May1944 -- Liberation, June-August 1944 -- Part Three : In and Out of Power, 1944-1958. In power, August 1944-May 1945 -- From liberator to saviour, May 1945-December 1946 -- The new messiah, 1947-1955 -- In the desert, 1955-1958 -- The 18 Brumaire of Charles de Gaulle, February-June 1958 -- Prsident du Conseil, June-December 1958 -- Part Four : Republican Monarch, 1959-1965. This affair which absorbs and paralyses us, 1959-1962 -- Turning point, 1962 -- The pursuit of grandeur, 1959-1963 -- Going global, 1963-1964 -- Modernizing monarch, 1959-1964 -- Half-time, 1965 -- Part Five : Towards the End, 1966-1970. Upsetting the applecart, 1966-1967 -- Diminishing returns -- Revolution, 1968 -- The end, June 1968-November 1970 -- Myth, Legacy and achievement.;A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Ptain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of Frances Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of a certain idea of France challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jacksons magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.

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Julian Jackson
A CERTAIN IDEA OF FRANCE
The Life of Charles de Gaulle
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First published 2018 Copyright Julian Jackson 2018 The moral right of the - photo 2

First published 2018

Copyright Julian Jackson, 2018

The moral right of the author has been asserted

General Charles de Gaulle, 11 June 1970. Archives de Gaulle, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images.

ISBN: 978-1-846-14352-6

List of Illustrations

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

LIST OF PLATES

. 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

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