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Charles de Gaulle
General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November - 9 November ) was a French military and political leader.
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He was president of France from to He was a founding member and leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
De Gaulle chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from to in order to re-establish democracy in France.
In , he came out of retirement: the Algerian War was happening. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after it was approved by a referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was re-elected in and held until his resignation in
The National Assembly brought him back to power in May He granted independence to Algeria.
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, French people in Algeria (called les pieds-noire) left for France. The Organisation armée secrète (OAS) tried to kill him. Frederick Forsyth used this incident as a basis for his novelThe Day of the Jackal.