From the young inter-war captain to the former president who took refuge in the Champagne countryside, from the London fighter to the political leader in Algiers, "Le Figaro" revisits, this week, some of the places that have marked the life of General de Gaulle, in this year in which we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the June 18 appeal and the 50th anniversary of his disappearance.
The big meetings are sometimes simpler than History tells them. This is undoubtedly the case with the crucial interview between Winston Churchill and de Gaulle, June 17, 1940. His plane, barely landed, the General dropped off his luggage in the small apartment in Seamore Grove - now Curzon Place - overlooking Hyde Park and loaned to him, before having lunch with General Edward Spears at the Royal Automobile Club (RAC).
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Then the two men go to 10 Downing Street. De Gaulle presents his intentions to Churchill. He does not have a choice. "Shipwrecked of desolation on the shores of England, what would I have
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