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Charles de Gaulle

Portrait of Charles de Gaulle

Liberator of France · President of the Republic · President of France · 1890–1970

The soldier who refused France's defeat in 1940 and, two decades later, gave her back her grandeur.

Why de Gaulle is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Charles de Gaulle can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of de Gaulle — five chapters

  1. The Officer Nobody Listened To — Verdun, captivity, and a theory about tanks
  2. 18 June 1940 — A broadcast from a country that had not surrendered
  3. Resignation and Twelve Years Out — Refusing the party system, then waiting
  4. Algeria — Ending a war that had brought France to the edge
  5. Grandeur, 1968, and a Referendum He Lost — An independent France, and an ending on his own terms

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