Leadership
Charles de Gaulle Quotes
Military Leader and Politician
Charles de Gaulle was military leader and politician from France
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Get Charles's Quotes“Difficulty attracts the man of character, because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.”— Charles de Gaulle
From Le Fil de l'epee, 1932. De Gaulle wrote it as a colonel reflecting on command, action, and the kind of man tested by hard times.
The Story of Charles
Legacy
Colombey
On April 28, 1969, de Gaulle lost a referendum on Senate reform. 53 percent voted against. The next day he resigned. No speeches, no bargaining. He left for Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises and never appeared in public again. He died on November 9, 1970, from an aortic aneurysm. He was 79. Only 40 people attended his funeral, as he had wished.
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