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Charles de Gaulle decided to "continue the struggle alongside the allies" (Bordeaux - 1940)

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The plaque: "It was in this command building that General de Gaulle, learning that the new government was preparing to ask for the Armistice, took the decision on the night of 16 to 17 June 1940 to continue the struggle alongside the allies, thus refusing to despair the fate of France."

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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (/də ˈɡoʊl, -ˈɡɔːl/; French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] (About this soundlisten);[1] 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.

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