De Gaulle - Hero of Free France Documentary

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@PeopleProfiles 2 года назад

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@adrianh.callais7565 Год назад

Another biography worth study is that of Jean De Lattre De Tassigny.

@johnbradbury8610 11 дней назад

You could have mentioned his wife and three daughters

@skiteufr 3 года назад

The English say he was arrogant. But being proud and patriotic, loving his country more than everything else, is not arrogance. And standing up for his country, sometimes against England, is not arrogance too. That's why the French love him.

@theawesomeman9821 3 года назад

didn't he say Asia has too many Asians?

@skiteufr 3 года назад

@@theawesomeman9821 no. That must be Trump

@hazchemel 2 года назад

Very nicely put. He must have been something of a visionary too.

@SilverSF2 2 года назад

@@hazchemel Yes he was, he foresaw before WW2 that tanks would play a big role in modern combat but the military establishment did not listen to him. He also probably was a visionary in economics with his concept of “participation”. If you can find an article on it, you would be surprised by his idea.

@rob5944 Год назад

Always against England, sour grapes?

@robertgrayraleigh 3 года назад

DeGaulle was a cool dude -- gutsy and courageous. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but always in love with the people of France and always a friend of freedom everywhere. His positive contributions far outweighted his negatives

@zeuovelightning3510 2 года назад

What about Indochina?

@kiplingwasafurry1108 2 года назад

Very accurate description, so many people get butthurt because “He WaS sO aRrOgAnT” but at times he needed to be.

@johndoe-ss9bz 2 года назад

Freedom for France, but NO FREEDOM FOR VIETNAM, NO FREEDOM FOR ALGERIA etc...

@jme104 2 года назад

@@johndoe-ss9bz You forget he gave independence to Algeria and black African countries . About Indochina he wasn't in charge at the time of the war .

@johndoe-ss9bz 2 года назад

@@jme104 Algeria had to fight hard for Independence, it was not handed to them!

@robinsanders5541 3 года назад

“The great asparagus” has to be one of the most French insults I’ve heard.

@destubae3271 3 года назад

Same energy as "your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries"

@djquinn11 3 года назад

@@destubae3271 : Lol, you beat me to it!

@destubae3271 3 года назад

@@djquinn11 Need to watch Monty Patton and De Holy Gaulle again.

@AuxaneST Год назад

That's because it is both a small insult to keep him in check and a term of endearment.

@mishrakaushik1 2 года назад

A policitian acts like your servant to become your master. ----- Charles De Gaulle

@cherbinsfleurisme9653 Год назад

Repeat again for me

@D45VR 2 года назад

I was a young man working for TWA in Paris in the 60-70's and have vivid memories of the day he died and the hundreds of thousands on the Champs-Elysees. It was very moving.

@mariabrett6712 2 года назад

It was a sad day the 9th of November I visit his grave in colombey les deux églises he is my hero💔

@NDnf84 3 года назад

Y'all can bash him, but the obvious reality is that if he were in charge of the French military in the decade before Germany's invasion, things would have gone much differently on the Western Front.

@dashcroft1892 3 года назад

Peut-être, but I doubt if the Republic could have afforded his vision. His insistence on a separate “Free” French force and an equal spot at the planning table whilst in exile certainly highlighted his vanity. Between Monty, Patton, and De Gaulle, Ike certainly had his work cut out for him.

@thevillaaston7811 3 года назад

@@dashcroft1892 It need not have been that way for Eisenhower. If he had kept out of the way and let Montgomery run the land campaign the war would have been over sooner.

@robertcottam8824 Год назад

@@dashcroft1892 ? Patton was sacked after his fuck-up in Sicily.

@skiker4560 Год назад

He was cocky, arrogant, self promoting and a damn good thing he was. The world needs people with balls. Take the good with the bad. He did more good than bad. RIP

@TonyZoster 4 месяца назад

He was an advisor but his advice was not listened to. In Germany many advised AH to that Invading the Soviet Union was not a good idea but those advisors were also not listened to. The US goverenemnt was advised not to get involved in Vietnam and it also didn't listen to that advice. History would have been different but that is life. In hindsight one is always wiser but by then the damage has already been done.

@dewycox6965 3 года назад

He was intense and patriotic. A true French hero

@martianshoes 2 года назад

I'm and old manufacturing plow horse…now out to pasture…we had a saying in our field that rings true for many fields of endeavor- “Pioneers always take the most arrows”….

@hubertvancalenbergh9022 5 месяцев назад

Some hero. Leading the resistance from abroad and then gloriously striding through Paris only after the Americans had liberated the capital and the rest of France. Heroic.

@alexanderkarayannis6425 3 года назад

From the documentary's very appropriate title, he had to be both, if he was to survive his long and eventful life and all the issues he had to deal with as a soldier and later as a politician...He WAS France, in so many ways...from another biographical book's title I read about him recently,and a man who has left his very own and indelible mark on his country's history,and not only...Larger than life in so many ways...Thank you for another well researched, and well presented, biography and for another excellent choice of a personality to do it for!...

@nikaproust 3 года назад

Well said, Alexander :)

@mariabrett6712 2 года назад

I have loved de Gaulle all my life he was a good man who loved France

@johngreally9599 2 года назад

It's was never Charles who was "argumentative, stubborn, obstinate", but France itself in him. Personifying a great nation is never an easy task, especially in the face of such indifference and opposition from so many others.

@johnpettipas3763 Год назад

AN EXCEPTIONALLY. GREAT 👍 MAN

@Bertie22222 Год назад

🤣

@Truhania Год назад

De Gaulle is without a doubt the greatest leader France ever has. He's superior to Napoleon who took over a strong France and left it weakened. De Gaulle took France when it was almost dead twice and each time left it stronger than when he took it. In 1940 France had lost the war, when he left in 1946 France was among the winners having its own occupation zone in germany. In 1958 France was on the verge of collapse again when he left in 1969 its economy was stronger, its international weight increased, it belonged to the nuclear nation club. Not many politicians can say they left their country in a better shape than when they took over. De Gaulle did it twice.

@Bertie22222 Год назад

Getting 3 Billion dollars from the US after the war helped

@billtaylor1231 3 года назад

DeGaulle is the only french leader to leave the country better off than when he came into power. great man. Great frenchman.

@Heisenberg882 2 года назад

Phillip II? Louis IX? Phillip IV? Charles V? Charles VIII? Louis XI? Francis I? Henri iv? Cardinal Richelieu?

@Edax_Royeaux 2 года назад

Wasn't Paris a cesspit until Napoleon III turned it into the City of Lights?

@johnlockwood1855 Год назад

not true actually he left the country in disgrace and remained isolated til his death...having said that YES he is without a doubt THE BEST president of the fifth republic and perhaps the most honest of all !

@xxvxxv5588 7 месяцев назад

I dont consider him great at least because of the defeat in the Algerian war.

@charlesramirez587 6 месяцев назад

@@xxvxxv5588if anything the abandoning of Algeria was likely a good thing for France and was likely De Gaulles preference. Economic ties and paternal oversight is better than having a hostile Muslim population under Catholic rule.

@BHuang92 3 года назад

De Gaulle was the literal expression of the French word Tour de Force

@bibleboy1147 3 года назад

It sucks what Churchill and Roosevelt did to him.

@tictac2therevenge291 3 года назад

Churchill did give him well needed support and recognition though, unlike Roosevelt

@wonjubhoy 2 года назад

Churchill was good to de Gaulle.

@yxada1998 Год назад

In the end, they gave his country back to his people. I am not sure any greater gift could have been offered. He and his people were utterly crushed. It sucks to have your entire nation returned to you. ( Along with support to restore it to it's rightful place in the world )

@DidierMey-ci5gs 2 месяца назад

Churchill l'a beaucoup aidé, même si les relations étaient très orageuses entre eux. En revanche, Roosevelt a fait tout ce qu'il pouvait pour l'écarter et a toujours misé sur Pétain d'abord (il l'appelait son " très cher ami ''), sur Darlan et Giraud ensuite, car il étaient plus dociles et manipulables. L'idée des Américains était de mettre la main sur l'empire colonial français, pour le business, et trouver des nouveaux débouchés pour leurs produits. Mais devant le caractère inflexible de De Gaulle, Roosevelt a fini par céder, et a dû renoncer à installer L'AMGOT en France, et renoncer à opérer son projet de découpage territorial de l'Europe.

@johnwildy4872 3 года назад

Yes, he was an arrogant Frog. Why should he not have been? He was most capable, indeed brilliant, dedicated to his country, and commanded respect even from those who didn't particularly like the excellent bastard.

@charlesvan13 Год назад

Do they call them "frogs" because they eat frogs? (Other people do too.) Or is it because of their language sounds like frogs?

@Venezolano410 Год назад

@@charlesvan13 I think it's the British and their American slugs that call them frogs.

@charlesvan13 Год назад

@@Venezolano410 I know the English speakers called them Frogs. I'm just wondering where it came from. "Kraut" was obviously because Germans eat Sauerkraut.

@alainbrochet5610 8 месяцев назад

Do you known that frogs are very delicious not bitter and very sweet. We eat only thighs.

@johnwildy4872 8 месяцев назад

I don't think that the English mean to be malevolent by referring to the French as "Frogs" although the term is a bit cheeky. Rivalry between those countries is a tradition. @@Venezolano410

@AlexC-ou4ju 3 года назад

A difficult man to get on with but undoubtedly a hero, a typically French hero though.

@secretagent5954 3 года назад

(cuz they french did heehaw during the war but shhhhh dont tell them that)

@alexispeyrache5880 3 года назад

@@secretagent5954 Man, no need to hide. History lessons in France insist more on the cowardice and collaboration of the French than on the so-called "heroic" resistance which never existed. I mean, let's take this French TV series : "Un Village Français". The main characters are a mayor who tries to reassure his village without being resistant, an industrialist who collaborates, a teacher in a relationship with a German and a policeman who arrests Jews. If there is one people who know that it is useless, it is the French.

@anthonykeegan5913 3 года назад

Why? Did ya know him

@JosiahJS976 3 года назад

@@alexispeyrache5880 Get out of here, troll. Nobody finds you funny, you’re calling people who fought the Nazis “useless”.

@tictac2therevenge291 3 года назад

@@mike62mcmanus actually that began in 1763

@madsdahlc 3 года назад

He was a man who belived in the glory of his nation . And thats France should maintain it’s independe and continue the fight against nazi germany….

@Crashed131963 3 года назад

Glad Germany and Japan did not surrender like France and have their own version of de Gaulle and continued fighting anyways after they surrendered.

@jme104 2 года назад

@@Crashed131963 Whot ???

@eziosalimbeni6325 3 года назад

I love the host's voice, absolutely phenomenal.

@buttercupj6208 3 года назад

I know

@curanderotango 3 года назад

He was a great patriot, someone who always put his nation and the honor and the prosperity of his nation before everything else in his life. May France forever pay homage to his memory and may God bless him always wherever he is!!...

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

Africa disagrees

@jme104 2 года назад

@@destroyerarmor2846 He gave independence to the french colonies, you know little about history .

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

@@jme104 Why has France assassinated African Presidents and overthrown several African government. Why is your military still occupying some African countries?

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

@@jme104 All blame on the Rwandan genocide can be pointed to France. All French activities in Africa serve ulterior motives

@jme104 2 года назад

@@destroyerarmor2846 Why do you think I'm french, simpleton ?

@jeffblackard9753 Год назад

Uttered literally the most important realpolitik quote of all time. “Nations don’t have Allie’s. They have temporary interest!”

@jessemery3976 3 года назад

With his early awareness of Germany it had to be destiny that he was involved in the biggest military conflict that ever was against Germany

@bibleboy1147 3 года назад

same for Churchill

@patcerra6714 3 года назад

u mean watching from the sidelines safely in the united kingdom. The last thing Eisenhower and Churchill needed was that arrogant frog prick screwing up their plans hence why he was kept at arms length as long as possible.

@danicornea 3 года назад

For me Gen. DE GAULLE was a national hero for France...not only for his endeavours in ww2 to liberate France from the Nazi, but also for endind the useless algerian conflict in 1962....

@steveaustin7306 3 года назад

Got a card table he used to sit at andvplay cards with my greatgrandfather

@rolandwhittle8527 3 года назад

Hello a very interesting documentary one main thing missing was about his private life and family. Concerning his personality I guess he suffered from what I call the marmite syndrome you either liked him or hate him. Like all great leaders to get anywhere you have to tread over other people's feelings to make progress like our Field Marshal Montgomery another difficult personality. Know doubt he was a difficult person but France was a difficult nation to sort out and rebuild from their trauma. But he fought on to victory for France as a new nation.

@richarddetriquet9642 Год назад

DeGaulle was a lion and a fighter for freedom. The British never knew what to make of him... austere, serious, principled, unflappable. He never cow towed to anyone including Churchill and FDR. They both despised him. Viscount Slim was the best commander Britain produced in WW2. His memoirs are incredibly honest on how he got beat, went to India, then went back and whipped the Japanese. Montgomery is not in his league, an angry, self absorbed, plodding, unimaginative commander. Patton called him a "ferocious rabbit"!

@leslieschumacher892 3 года назад

A great man, a hero.

@Bertie22222 Год назад

As the germans were invading France he went on a four year holiday in London. Nice hotel, nice food, a true hero

@GeoNoob Год назад

@@Bertie22222are you stupid? It was not "a holiday" he was simply in exile and he didn't have a choice because his own country literally sentenced him to death. Stop bashing him cause he's french

@connordevereaux759 3 года назад

Viva la France 🇫🇷 Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

@secretagent5954 3 года назад

france sucks youre welcome youre still here

@liosan431 3 года назад

@@secretagent5954 and why does france suck?

@stankatic8182 3 года назад

Tell that to the Vietnamese and Algerians.

@mercomania 3 года назад

Nicely tucked away in London.

@scottadkins7322 3 года назад

DeGaulle was a royal a**hole, but...IMPORTANTLY, he gave much of his life for the freedom and independence of France. And for that, he is rightly regarded as a hero of France, and given France's position in the world today . . . I submit, one of the great figures of Western democracy in the 20th century. Viva la France!!

@Crashed131963 3 года назад

Glad Germany and Japan did not surrender like France and have their own version of de Gaulle and continued fighting anyways after they surrendered.

@jme104 2 года назад

@@Crashed131963 Whot ?

@Heisenberg882 2 года назад

It's vive not viva

@tonylove4800 3 года назад

He must be absolutely loving the Brexit fiasco. He made sure to keep the Brits out while he could.

@RuinMassia 3 года назад

Never in the field of human conflict has one man do so little, yet take so much glory

@terrystephens1102 3 года назад

An excellent presentation, thank you.

@MyMakeDo 3 года назад

He was no friend of Canada.

@tictac2therevenge291 3 года назад

He was a good friend of French Canada.

@Heisenberg882 2 года назад

vive le quebec libre

@ivankasimeonova6293 3 года назад

Thank you! It was really usefull, very interesting content. The world needs more people like Charles de Gaulle. But I am curious about one thing: How did you choose the coin at the end of the video to be the Bulgarian 1 lev coin?

@PeopleProfiles 3 года назад

Thanks for the praise, it was the best stock footage we could find.

@romelnegut2005 3 года назад

Like many before him, he was both and that's because the situation demanded that from him.

@zacharymcmullen9444 3 года назад

“A little bitta column A, a little bitta column B~”

@hansvonessen6259 3 года назад

Very good video about General Charles De Gaulle to me. Please make us the one about Otto Von Bismarck as me and my friends want to know more about him. Thanks.🙂

@PeopleProfiles 3 года назад

We will 😁

@hansvonessen6259 3 года назад

@@PeopleProfiles Thanks a lot for the reply with YES from you our friend. We are very glad to hear that. 👏💕✌️😃🙂😚😊😍☺️ 💕💕💕

@ethanramos4441 3 года назад

@@hansvonessen6259 They already made one but they can remake it

@waltertaljaard1488 2 года назад

He most probably wouldn''t have survived WW1, if he wasn't a POW for most of the time.

@TonyZoster 4 месяца назад

The enemy doctors saved his life. How galling to remember that all your life

@stankatic8182 3 года назад

I didn't know there were Metro shelf laundry bags in WWI ! Thanks for bringing that to light.

@ethanramos4441 3 года назад

“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeves, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his excited and breathless.” Charles de Gaulle

@cards0486 3 года назад

He could be both. He WAS both.

@jamesconstable3680 3 года назад

Great video as always !!

@alexandrechampagne8970 2 года назад

-"Vive le Québec LIBRE!" Charles De Gaulle, 1967.....

@D45VR 2 года назад

100%

@lynnhuston8284 2 года назад

He was a true patriot wish we had more like that

@TonyZoster 4 месяца назад

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

@hazchemel 2 года назад

Thank you. A man whose life I should study more, and previously heard only unsatisfactory snippets. Unfortunately, many representations of de Gaulle, in English, offer mainly insinuations and complaints about his "difficult" nature, a kind of petty diary of a rival. What would he make of the situation today, in which the Brussels mega-bureaucracy seeks to absorb France and the sovereign nations of Europe.

@SilverSF2 2 года назад

If only he gave the order to get rid of Monnet and all these parasites ! If he came back today, he would furious to see that France consented to adopt a currency based on the Deutschmark, thus giving away a part of its sovereignty.

@haryburtoiu5111 5 месяцев назад

R.I.P. MON GENERAL. VIVE LA FRANCE !

@djackmanson Год назад

I appreciate you have to keep videos under a certain length to make them watchable. But I think De Gaulle's postwar career merits a whole video on its own. Manoeuvring his way back to the presidency, recognising that French imperialism in Algeria had had its day, and as a result of that, putting down coups and dodging assassination attempts are a great story. Add in his attempts to preserve French freedom of action in a world of two great superpowers, and his leadership as the Common Market got stronger, and that's easily an hour's worth of material.

@borja1000 2 года назад

A true patriot indeed! His arrogance was best displayed at the infamous "Quebec livre" incident which could have been talked in this video.

@fatbloke143 3 года назад

Enjoyed this very much. Just one correction: it's pronounced "DEL-a-no" not "de-LAH-no"

@scotsexile1 3 года назад

What do you mean "English reinforcements"? Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Canadians, Australians, South Africans, Indians and soldiers from many other lands came to the rescue.

@thevillaaston7811 3 года назад

Lohdochart And none of the "reinforcements" were English?..

@carlhicksjr8401 Год назад

DeGaulle was... complicated. Vain, prideful, stiff-necked and abrasive, these are common assessments of the man. But he was also incredibly smart [though not the genius he thought he was], an incredible political operator, and decisive. And whatever else Charles DeGaulle was, whatever may otherwise be said about him, he was first and foremost a French patriot in an era when his nation desperately needed one. You cannot look at DeGaulle from just a War Two lens any more than you can look at Eisenhower with one. Their public life lasted twenty years after the War with each serving as head of state. If it is alright to castigate Petain for Vichy France, then it is just as fair to hold DeGaulle into account for Algeria. Each man was a hero to the nation and each man made monumental errors that cost the country dearly. Whatever else, the case of DeGaulle makes fascinating reading on just just a historical but also a psychological front.

@alexanderdoddy7590 3 года назад

Very curious how things would have changed, if the Anglo-Franco union had occurred

@Baamthe25th 3 года назад

I doubt it was possible (And that's why it failed, imo)

@alexanderdoddy7590 3 года назад

@@Baamthe25th True, it was very unlikely to have succeeded long term. However, a short term (20 year) union for stability could have had a chance .

@Clipgatherer 2 года назад

He just couldn’t cope with the student riots and strikes of 1968, and when his constitutional reform bill failed the next year, de Gaulle resigned. He was often seen as stubborn, haughty and an archconservative, but he was truly a great man and we don’t see too many of those these days.

@mariabrett6712 2 года назад

I agree with you

@brentsummers7377 5 месяцев назад

Imagine the chaos in 1944 if Charles de Gaulle had command of several divisions & had to work with Patton and Montgomery. Even Eisenhower would have struggled to make that work😂

@michellesheppard9253 3 года назад

@The People Profiles would you consider making a documentary on Josep Broz Tito?

@PeopleProfiles 3 года назад

Definitely yes, the list is long and growing though lol.

@aleksandarteodorovic5349 3 года назад

@@PeopleProfiles Just don't paint him with the bright brush because he didn't deserve it.

@michellesheppard9253 3 года назад

@@aleksandarteodorovic5349 love him or hate him, he was a very interesting character.

@theblackprince1346 3 года назад

The new artwork is looking really good.

@PeopleProfiles 3 года назад

An improvement?

@theblackprince1346 3 года назад

@@PeopleProfiles I did like the previous style but personally I think the new style looks better. Looks like a painting.

@PeopleProfiles 3 года назад

Good, thanks 249.

@joezephyr 3 года назад

Phillip Petain. Please do Phillip Petain

@adamscease4126 3 года назад

Old chuckles

@Anubis-hm7ro 3 года назад

Thank you

@jerrybrenton6140 3 года назад

Why wouldn’t he swoop in after America, the English and ussr did the heavy lifting . Knowing the French people would want a French hero. It’s brilliant.

@jme104 2 года назад

The Nazis kept the brits prisoners in their island and the US wanted to crush their opponents ,keep imperialism for their own benefit and get costumers for their goods, that's the reason why they "liberated" Europe.Five years of Nazi occupation was followed by 50 years (and more) of US occupation . When France started to be liberated , young frenchmen enlisted en masse to fight the nazis.

@tizfrreecharm 2 года назад

Very fine video, but I was surprised that there was no mention about France and VietNam; did DeGaulle have no opinion about that disaster?; just thought I'd ask

@joacimnieminen 3 года назад

A truly great patriot, humanitarian and hero of the French Nation. Vive de Gaulle!

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

Pirate of Africa

@jme104 2 года назад

@@destroyerarmor2846 Ignorant simpleton, that's what you are .

@myguitar5724 10 месяцев назад

Great video!

@MageWarren 3 года назад

Ah yes. I was always fond of Tcharles de Gaulz

@RegentOfGreece 2 года назад

De Gaulle was a true Hero of France, even surpassing Napoleon himself. He was a great friend of the Allies, and the Liberator of Democracy and Republicanism

@ochan4884 Год назад

Good presentation. It is sad that he had to retire/die as a man rejected by his own people, although loved.

@LCMM2150 3 года назад

Comment to help the channel.

@er6071 3 года назад

I enjoyed this.

@hamid.r.salehi 3 года назад

Ruhe in Frieden

@alexkubeck8587 3 года назад

Does anyone know of an important battle that he won? Or was he just our "front man" for French liberation?

@alexkubeck8587 3 года назад

@@aaropajari7058 The United States armed forces liberated France. The French had a token force...Interestingly, in the 50s, the French wanted US help to transport their troops to Vietnam to maintain their colony* However, later in the 60s, De Gaul withdrew France from NATO. What was that about? *Pentagon Papers

@alexkubeck8587 3 года назад

@@rambolo682 What was his issue with NATO? That was not the response of an ally

@blowbert9126 2 года назад

@@alexkubeck8587 he left NATO simply because it was under direct US control. Besides De Gaulle told the americans that despite leaving NATO france would come to its allies help if the soviets tried anything funny

@alexkubeck8587 2 года назад

@@blowbert9126 Wouldn't the U.S. naturally take the lead role similar to the World War II coalition? The U.S. had the greater number of troops, equipment and logistics. Historical Aside: France wanted the U.S. to help move its troops to preserve its colonies in Indochina after World War II (Pentagon Papers). With the exception of Chirac and Sarkozy, French leaders- post World War II- were outwardly antagonistic towards United States foreign policy interests?? Miterrand?

@blowbert9126 2 года назад

@@alexkubeck8587 french preferred having command of their armies to themself. And most french leaders didnt want post ww2 america involved in european politics for good reasons

@smeegy1 Год назад

This man was an officer in WWI and WWII. Of all the people to appreciate the sacrifice that Canadians made so that his country can simply continue to exist, I'd expect him to be one of the most appreciative. So what does he do to thank us? In 1967, the year of our 100th anniversary, he comes to Montreal and gives a "vive le quebec libre" speech, thereby inciting separatism within the country that helped save his own. What a gigantic POS. It's insulting that a nation actually considers him a hero.

@gustavogomez8909 3 года назад

What about the blockade of monico

@shilu1298 2 года назад

Great man of the great nation

@FutureBoyWonder 2 года назад

Your description of the maginot line is mot right

@khuwahid4747 2 года назад

Oh myra herose.... mein der zu sie sosek ah soot te

@StephenLuke 2 года назад

RIP Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

@bodyloverz30 Год назад

FYI, at the end, DeGaulle is a Frenchman, NOT a "French Person!"

@rawdrywall8212 2 года назад

Can't wait to see the "but Algeria" comments lmao

@AlCarou 3 года назад

On 28th minute you are proclaiming Germany as a neutral country toward France!? Have you ever heard of "Versailles dictate"? Rhineland remilitarization by Hitler in 1936 was the first obvious step against French power!

@jme104 2 года назад

Versaille treaty dictate was well deserved after all what the Germans did in Belgium and France .

@Techgnome21 3 месяца назад

He reminds me a bit of a modern Napoleon

@ahronthegreat Год назад

So de Gaulle had the opposite problem of Napoleon on the height front I love de Gaulle ❤ the greatest Frenchman of all time

@cherbinsfleurisme9653 Год назад

So proud of grandpa u a such great hero

@dipankargupta9359 3 года назад

I am interested to know owner of voice behind this post. He is having great similarity with Dr Shashi Tharoor in India

@jacksonreilly3441 3 года назад

The glory of France? On which day in history did that event occur? DeGaulle was a supercilious twit who fought his war from the safety of England and North Africa than, once Britain and America had driven out the Germans, he led the victory parade as if he had single-handedly defeated the entire Wehrmacht.

@melissaallen6914 2 года назад

Really

@guystephens2881 2 года назад

They had to postpone parade till they could get enough french soldiers there to participate. France was liberated by American forces and foreign legionaries. Patton once claimed that he would rather have a company of German troops in front of him than a company of French soldiers behind him

@jacksonreilly3441 2 года назад

@@guystephens2881 Good one! Churchill once stated that the heaviest cross he had to bear was the Cross of Lorraine!

@SammyNeedsAnAlibi Год назад

He's just being French. I'm married to a French woman... that's how they roll. Very arrogant, very passionate, and sometimes spoiled brats, but ya love 'em anyway!

@nickox7813 3 года назад

i'm pretty sure to be the leader of france you have to be extremely arrogant... its like a requirement of sorts lol

@patcerra6714 3 года назад

or so stupid that they cannot see that, as is the case now, they have allowed the occupants of the Trojan Horse ,(whose name we cannot say in public for fear of being branded racist), into you major cities to commence the downfall of their culture. How many churches have been defiled and destroyed so far and how many will it take before the French people wake up out of their slumber. This time there will be no US or UK to save them.

@jme104 2 года назад

@@patcerra6714 You don't know what you're talking about . Get a passport, gather your savings, buy an airline ticket and go look for yourself .

@pjmuscat401 Год назад

The guy that tried to break up Canada after the Canadians fought to free France. That's what I remember him for

@AuxaneST Год назад

Salty anglo. As leader of France he had to repair the feelings of abandonment from Louis XIV leaving his subjects for dead... He did what a great statesman needed to do.

@pjmuscat401 Год назад

@@AuxaneST I am a Canadian and not British. I love my country🇨🇦. What your beloved de gaulle tried to do in 1968 was threatened Canada's existence by encouraging Quebec to separate. So to me after what we Canadian did for France in WW2 that's the thank you we get!!!

@AuxaneST Год назад

@@pjmuscat401 then you should be even less salty. As said it was not about urging the breakup of Canada directly but about making Quebecers feel recognized and supported after a history of abandonment from tge French state. What they decide to do after that is their own choice and self-determination as they are free to do so like all people. By the way...many "Canadian" volunteers who came to help beat nazism in their ancestral homeland were in fact Québécois independentists just like war hero Léo Major. And finally: your conception of friendship sucks: friends say the truth to each other and incite them to do what's right: support the self-determination of people.

@pjmuscat401 Год назад

@@AuxaneST he interfered in Canadian affairs. Pierre Trudeau had to tell me to leave Canada when he visited. How would the French feel if a foreign leader interfered that way.

@Bertie22222 Год назад

@@AuxaneST Pompous unit, marching into Paris like he did the fighting, he should have let the resistance go first.

@feargodkojo6121 Год назад

He served the interest of France but he's guilty of crimes against man as well as war crimes here in Africa

@DidierMey-ci5gs Месяц назад

Qu'est-ce que tu racontes ? Il a donné l'indépendance à l'empire colonial français en Afrique, car il était un anticolonial affirmé, déjà dans les années 1930. Il savait que les colonies coûtaient bien plus cher à la France que ce qu'il lui rapportait. Et il trouvait incohérent de réclamer et de défendre la liberté et l'indépendance pour son pays, tout en maintenant des peuples entiers sous la domination d'une puissance étrangère. Vraiment, ce que tu dis est complètement faux.

@johnkeller6063 Год назад

He was a true patriot and leader.

@Crashed131963 3 года назад

Glad Germany and Japan did not surrender like France and have their own version of de Gaulle and continued fighting anyways after they surrendered.

@jme104 2 года назад

???????????????????

@Geojr815 Год назад

Didn’t the other leaders of the Allies try to exclude this guy as much as they could?

@jacobzehner2004 Год назад

Merci Charles de Gaulle for creating the French resistance,free French forces and the free French government. ✊🇫🇷

@altafsatti6510 3 года назад

President DeGaulle, a great soldier,best general French ever had. He was well read & well versed General & Politician. In midst of diabolical crises of 2nd World War General endeavoured to keep France united & inspired courage & determination in people of France & disarrayed & scattered Armed Forces. His contribution in Military Warfare, Planning, Tactics & Knowledge is unique & beneficial. He shall always be remembered with respect & honour. I had honour to “Welcome “ him during the state visit of Pakistan when Field Marshal Ayub Khan was president of Pakistan. Wishing him all the best, May he rest in peace “. With very high regards, Altaf Satti, Senior Engineer Xmission, FCO, BBC World, (1975-2003)

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

A disgrace to Africa

@jme104 2 года назад

@@destroyerarmor2846 Please explain .

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

@@jme104 France is still preying on Africa

@jacksonreilly3441 3 года назад

Germany didn't need the Wehrmacht to defeat the French; two or three detachments of the Hitler Youth could have done the job.

@jme104 2 года назад

This comment shows you're an imbecile .

@Heisenberg882 2 года назад

How to show you know nothing about history in one sentence.

@jacksonreilly3441 2 года назад

@@jme104 No attempt at refutation or rebuttal; just silly name-calling. Pathetic but nonetheless typical!

@jacksonreilly3441 2 года назад

@@Heisenberg882 What is the thinnest book in the world? Answer ------ French Military Heroes of World War II.

@vavq4471 3 года назад

Sound like Shashi Taroor

@hoong18 Год назад

De Gaulle was a great leader of the modern world.

@laszlonemet4425 3 года назад

Charles - - Marie

@jme104 2 года назад

That's a french name , nothing female in there, magyar .

@laszlonemet4425 2 года назад

@@jme104 Marie Baptiste Cul

@jme104 2 года назад

@@laszlonemet4425 Lasso is a fine name LOL . Stay in the middle of nowhere, Puszta ?

@laszlonemet4425 2 года назад

@@jme104 Marie jen

@rob5944 Год назад

The whole empire is behind you, typical DeGaulle, IE no acknowledgement of Allies that liberated France. In fact I've always been of the opinion that he resented not so much the fact his country had been defeated, but had to be rescued. It showed during his premiership too, particularly towards Britain.