People cheered wildly as General Charles de Gaulle and Free French troops marched into the center of the city.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

Former French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, had withdrawn from the military command in the 1960s, concerned that France would lose its military independence to rising superpower, the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

In 1945, General Charles De Gaulle was elected president of the French Provisional Government.

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