de gaulle

What if de Gaulle hadn't resigned as President of France in 1969? This would almost certainly require the constitutional referendum he proposed to have been passed, and given the fairly small margin of defeat (52.4/47.6) a significant POD - for example Valery Giscard not to come out against the...

"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...

As we all know the rise of the Third French Empire was one of the biggest surprises of the mid 20th century. After France was overrun and occupied by the Germans, Emperor Napoleon VI emerged as the face of France where he coordinated the continued resistance against the Nazis with the...

Would it be possible for De Gaulle or another French leader to ally the Soviets, openly or secretly. I know they left NATO for a brief time and that De Gaulle referred to the Soviet Union as Russia to evoke ww1 memories of fighting alongside one another, what would have to happen for this to be...

So lets assume that De Gaulle has a deadly car accident in 1956 or 1957. He is able to write his war memoirs and has enough time to communicate his political ideas but he isn't available as a unifying political figure when the Algerian crisis is threatening the weak Fourth Republic. What would...

Good day dear friends. As you probably know, on May 3, 1968 students of the Sorbonne staged a mass strike. On the 14th of May the workers joined the students. In early June, the Communists arrested De Gaulle. But what if the revolution failed, that if the demonstration could be dispersed, or if...

Apologies if this has already been debated but I'm intrigued by what might have happened to post-war Europe if the Allies had lost patience with De Gaulle's posturing and unreasonable demands in 1942-43 and he suffered a Sikorsky-like flight. If this lead to the marginalisation of identifiable...

Intro: No nation has friends, only interests. Germany, the old enemy, lays dismantled, divided into a series of small states before an ascendant France, as is the natural order of Europe. German coal and steel feed into the French economy, and German troops drill under French generals. All the...

Came across an interesting snippet of EU history a while back about how in early 1963 Franco-German relations apparently became strained due to price disagreements over the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with de Gaulle actually threatening to withdraw France from the EEC. Now he was...

On Christmas 1942 the admiral Darlan, previously PM of Pétain and designated succesor, and who had in the previous weeks rallied the Allies, and with him the French West Africa and French Algeria, was murdered by Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle. Darlan was pretty impopular with some sections of...

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...