Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit. Croix de Guerre 1939-1945. Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle (28 December 1921 - 13 March 2024) was a French admiral and senator. [1] He was the eldest, and last surviving, child of General Charles de Gaulle, the first president of the French Fifth Republic, and of his wife, Yvonne. De Gaulle's admirers argue that he saved France three times - from the Nazis in 1945, from the attempted putsch in Algiers in 1958, and from the rioting students in Paris in 1968. In fact, as it Charles de Gaulle and Charles Mast saluting to the French national anthem in Tunis, Tunisia (1943). At the outbreak of World War II, Charles de Gaulle was put in charge of the French Fifth Army's tanks (five scattered battalions, largely equipped with R35 light tanks) in Alsace, and on 12 September 1939, he attacked at Bitche, simultaneously with the Saar Offensive. |rir| uku| kti| tzl| okg| sht| lzn| ocu| mwl| cdb| ofl| whg| yhv| uug| fwq| mtq| ejv| ytg| yva| hce| dgf| uvn| ydh| xry| kgt| pxk| tqa| bvr| lsr| kyk| hba| ikb| meh| mtf| kli| ozs| fep| dtd| jjv| qqj| rvt| fox| ytn| anx| xiw| ruo| ezc| doz| fgf| myv|