Grave Charles de Gaulle Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

At the cemetery of Colombey, Charles de Gaulle has been died and buried in 1970. De Gaulle was during the Second World War the head of the French government in exile and appeal the French people to resist the Germans after the defeat of 1940. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, de Gaulle established his new government. In 1946 he resigned. But in 1959, he where again the president of France for 10 years. On the 9th of November 1970 he died in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises at the age of 80.

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• Text: Jente de Roust
• Photos: Wim Hilderson (1, 3, 4, 5), Juergen Kappenberg (2)