Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France\'s honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a man of contradictions.
He is a conservative who brought the communists into his government and an imperialist who completed France\'s decolonisation in Algeria..
Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France\'s honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a man of contradictions