The record-fast collapse of yet another government confronts President Emmanuel Macron and his country with an intensifying crisis. By Roger Cohen During World War II, she deceived her watchful mother ...

President Charles de Gaulle, for whom everything seemed turning up roses scarcely a year ago, is feeling a few thorns. At home, the man who was installed to end the Algerian war, is being attacked ...

PARIS, May 15, 1958 (UP) - Gen. Charles De Gaulle announced dramatically today that "I hold myself ready to take over the powers of the Republic."Thus, the 67-year-old World War II hero stepped back ...

Julian Jackson, a professor of history at Queen Mary University of London, has painstakingly researched the life of a man, Charles de Gaulle, who dedicated himself in every effort, whether in war or ...

PARODYING Marshal Foch, who once observed that Communism is a disease of defeated countries, a cynic might be tempted to say that memoir-writing is a malady of defeated generals. But the experience of ...

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt found Charles de Gaulle admirable and infuriating in equal measure, and readers may well feel the same way about his war memoirs, now in a fresh reprint ...

General de Gaulle famously evoked “a certain idea of France” in his memoirs, but in fact he embodied it. He was the man who, from London, on June 18, 1940, called on the French to refuse the offer of ...