Charles de Gaulle
1890–1970 · general and president · France
Politics and power1 year old in 1891
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and its puppet state of Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. Following the 1958 Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement at the request of President René Coty, who appointed him Prime Minister. He commissioned a new 1958 French constitution which was approved by voters in a swift majority, during a referendum, establishing the French Fifth Republic. He was subsequently elected the President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1890s
- Who governs
- The Republic lives through scandal after scandal: Panama in 1892, then the Dreyfus affair.
- Everyday life
- Electric light, the bicycle craze and, from 1898, the digging of the first metro line change city life.
- Arts and ideas
- Montmartre cabarets, Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, and in 1895 the Lumière brothers' first film screenings.
- Meanwhile
- Britain is at the height of Queen Victoria's empire, and Japan has just defeated China in 1895.
Their life in their time
- 1890
- 18988 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 18988 years oldPolonium and radium
- 194050 years old
- 194454 years old
- 194454 years oldLiberation of Parisleader of Free France
- 194656 years old
- 195868 years old
- 197080 years oldDies
