From the young captain of the inter-war period to the former president who took refuge in the Champagne countryside, from the London fighter to the political leader of Algiers, Le Figaro revisits, this week, some of the places that have marked life by General de Gaulle, in this year in which we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the June 18 appeal and the 50th anniversary of its disappearance.
"As long as the French are there, we can hope. Do not go!" , she implores. The young Captain de Gaulle, 29, sits in uniform in a restaurant in Warsaw in the summer of 1920, when a Polish "old lady" spontaneously approaches him to launch this sentence which moves him and comforts him in the idea of the importance of France and the unprecedented military mission in which it takes part. "Hey! no, we will not leave, ” he replies. Recording the episode in his diary, which will be the subject of a publication in the Revue de Paris , he adds that the officers of the French Military Mission, including
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