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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles de Gaulle
Age: 79 †
Born: 1890
Born: November 22
Died: 1970
Died: November 9
Former President Of The French Republic
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Military Personnel
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
Long
Quebec
Montreal
Free
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As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was one cannot judge life until death.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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