Macron's commemoration of the iconic broadcast from across the English Channel in 1940 comes in the midst of a legislative election campaign in which the far right is in a strong position. After a ...

Twenty years after his death, Charles de Gaulle has seldom been more in the news than this year on the 100th anniversary of his birth and this week on the 50th anniversary of his historic appeal from ...

One of the most famous speeches in modern French history — General Charles de Gaulle’s 1940 radio plea for France to resist the Nazi occupation — is to go on display on Saturday for the first time.

NewsNo recording has been preserved of one of the most celebrated speeches in French history. What remains is a legend, which 'Le Monde,' in partnership with Ircam, has attempted to reconstruct by ...

Amidst the crackling sounds, an unmistakable voice emerges: "Whatever happens, the flame of the French Resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished!" says General de Gaulle. Or ...

General and former French President Charles de Gaulle giving a radio speech in Paris in 1946, after the end of the war. (Photo by AFP) In 1940, France's former president and then-General Charles de ...

This photograph taken on December 6, 2024, shows a pages from original manuscript of General de Gaulle's 1940 "Appeal of June 18", displayed ahead of an auction of General de Gaulle's personal ...