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The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle by Charles Williams,

The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle by Charles Williams,
"I am France", General Charles de Gaulle announced when he formed the Free French in 1941. It was no idle boast. Following France's rapid capitulation to Nazi forces, de Gaulle alone stood for a France undefeated and still fighting. Through sheer force of will, he made himself heard, rescuing French dignity and insuring that at the end of World War II France would be among the victorious armies, her status as a world power recognized. It was an immense achievement, one that only a man of de Gaulle's raw nerve, stubbornness, arrogance, and messianic conviction could have accomplished. Though he had virtually no resources and commanded only a few thousand men, he insisted that Britain and America treat France as an equal. His relationship with Churchill was stormy in the extreme but based on a strong mutual admiration; with Roosevelt his relationship was icy. Nonetheless he achieved his goal: France took her place among the Big Five nations in the postwar world. The man who had been sentenced to death as a traitor by the Vichy government returned to France in 1944 a hero and a legend, soon to be elected president. In 1946 de Gaulle shocked the world by resigning. When he stepped back into the political arena twelve years later, it was to once again save a France in crisis. With the adroit maneuvering of a political mastermind he extricated France from Algeria and pulled the country back from the brink of civil war. He barely escaped with his life, surviving numerous assassination attempts by French-Algerians angered by his apparent betrayal. De Gaulle's second presidency lasted ten years until 1968, when student-led revolts toppled his government, but his extraordinary legacy endured inFrance's most effective constitution since the Revolution, and in international prestige that would have been unthinkable in the previous decade. Charles de Gaulle died in November 1970, a few days before his eightieth birthday.



Grass Angel
Grass Angel
Frances Cressen has the perfect summer planned. She's going to Camp Whitman with her best friend, Agnes. But Frances's mother has something else in mind for the family: Mountain Ash, a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere. Frances can't think of anything worse than Bible class and baby-sitting for eight long weeks--that is, until her mother drives away with her younger brother, Everett, and leaves Frances behind. Now a stranger is renting Frances's house while she's stuck living out by the graveyard with her odd aunt Blue. And Camp Whitman is a disaster. The boys in Frances's group say that weird things are happening at Mountain Ash, and Frances begins to worry and to wonder. Everett doesn't sound like himself anymore, and her mother never talks about coming home. Are they happier without Frances? "From the Hardcover edition.



Petit-Fils de France - Petit-Fils de France, meaning "Grandson of France", was the title given to the sons of Fils de France who were themselves the sons of the kings and dauphins of France. Their daughters would have the title Petit-Fille de France which means "Granddaughter of France.

Metropolitan France - Metropolitan France (French: la France métropolitaine, or just la Métropole) refers to the part of France in Europe, including Corsica, as opposed to the overseas departments and overseas territories, which, while integral parts of the French Republic, are regarded as Overseas France (la France d'outre-mer, or more colloquially les DOM-TOM). In the overseas departments, a person from Metropolitan France is often called a métro, short for métropolitain.

Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure - The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) or General Directorate for External Security is France's external intelligence agency. On April 2, 1982 it replaced the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE).

France 3 - France 3 is the second largest French public TV network, part of the France Télévisions group also comprizing France 2, France 4, France 5 and RFO.



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