When De Gaulle stopped being 'De Gaulle'

Charles de Gaulle et sa fille Anne.

(Photo by Alexandre MARCHI / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Alexandre MARCHI / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

"My dear and beloved little woman."

Thus Charles de Gaulle headed the letters to her wife, Yvonne.

It was the intimate De Gaulle.

The one that was rarely shown.

The man stripped of public solemnity.

The hero of the nation when he became a private citizen.

The totem when it became flesh and blood.

The husband, the father ...

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