CHARLES DE GAULLE'S CENTURY

The Boston Globe | November 22, 1990 | Copyright

He was a visionary, a prophet and, because he had come so far with so little so often, the most melodramatic of politicians. His birthday is being celebrated in France because he was one of that country's and the world's greatest men. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, son of a philosophy professor at a Jesuit college, was born in Lille 100 years ago today.

He had no problem with "the vision thing." When his country rejected his military advice and fell to Hitler's armies in six weeks, he refused to capitulate. As a brigadier general, accused of treason by his old commanding ...

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