charles de gaulle

Henri d'Orléans was the Orleanist pretender when WW2 broke out and he largely tried not to take a side between the Vichy and Exiled governments. De Gaulle did make overtures and there was still some monarchist sentiment among the French at this point so it wouldn't have been out of the question...

What would have happened if the plot to kill then President of France Charles de Gaulle described in Fredrick Forsyth's 1971 political thriller The Day of The Jackal not actually occurred but also succeeded? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal In 1962 France was suffering from...

Charles de Gaulle was a general in World War 2 who later became President of France. In OTL he established the 5th republic in 1958 but he was thinking of reinstating the Monarchy with the House of Orleans ruling France since he was close to Henri, Count of Paris. He even considered it after...

Philippe Petain is ill-regarded in France today, for his role in the pro-nazi Vichy Regime. Prior to that he was a fierce French patriot and nationalist- the Lion of Verdun. So, what if, after the capitulation of the 3rd Republic, he made his way to Algiers with Charles De Gaulle, the up and...

After being vetoed by Charles de Gaulle in its attempt to become a member of the European Economic Community in 1962, the United Kingdom tried again five years later, only to be vetoed a second time by the French president. But what if something happened to de Gaulle (say he dies or is defeated...

All Gall A French Politics TL by gaitskellitebevanite VIVE DE GAULLE! This old man he played ONE He played knick-knack at Verdun Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune This old man came rolling hime This old man, World War TWO He told Churchill what to do Free French General, crosses...

In 1965, most people expected Charles de Gaulle, president of France, to be reelected outright, without the need of a second round. This was the apex of the Trente Glorieuses ("Thirty Glorious Years") and most people were pretty happy with their lot in life, with the upheavals of 1968 yet to...

"Bastien-Thiry led the most prominent of several assassination attempts on de Gaulle. He and his group of three shooters (Lt. Alain de La Tocnaye, Jacques Prevost, and Georges Watin) made preparations in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart. On 22 August 1962, while Bastien-Thiry functioned as a...

In 1958, Charles De Gaulle became President in the hopes that he would keep Algeria French. To the military and Pied Noir's shock and disappointment, he negotiated with the FLN that made Algeria become independent in 1962. What if Charles De Gaulle kept his promise back in 1958 and fought to...

Hello from Królewiec ! I am writing this before I go for my Workaway in Vratislav, Czechoslovakia to celebrate both the Anniversay of the Fall of Communism the Unification of Ireland with my lads. Despite going against the wishes of the WAllies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president from...

So, basically, assume that anytime between the Suez Crisis and De Gaulle's pronunciamento in response to General Salan's invitation into government in may 1958, De Gaulle suffers a stroke and dies, or is murdered. What happens to the agonizing political climate of the later French Fourth...

FEEL THE BEARN A Timeline of France's Only Carrier in World War II and Beyond July 15, 1943 1:17PM EST Admiral Georges Robert stood in the sweltering humidity, looking at the deteriorated hulks of Brewster Buffalo fighter planes before them. They had stood in the very field before him for...

I got the idea for this thread reading the diverse threads about the French and how the do in a war... So, WI de Gaulle had been the overall commander of the French army when the nazis invaded? I'm sure that he'd done better than OTL commanders, he seems to have had the right attitude, the...