Charles de Gaulle: The Leader of Free France
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Source/Further reading:
Jonathon Fenby: The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France he Saved
Douglas Boyd: De Gaulle
Julian Jackson: De Gaulle
Aidan Crawley: De Gaulle
I will never understand how this guy lived until 1970.
He survived several assasination attempts. Look at him. He was so tall you would think that killing him would be
an easy job. But he survived every time.
Protected by Providence ^^
@Fux News
la légion est une sorte de rédemption pour la plus part mais on peut très bien avoir encore l'esprit criminel quand on en sort
The bullets were obviously deflected by de Gaulle's massive armour plated balls of steel.
Bullets only kill manlets bro
Edward Fox came closest.
A yes Colonel Motors the lesser known cousin of General Motors.
That's super punny
@@wkdravenna
The best kinda joke
you win
Which is funny, since De Gaulle said to his aide: "This war is over, and the General Motor is going to win it." as he learned that Japan attacked the US.
Boom boom!
During his capture by the Germans in WW1 Charles de Gaulle shared a cell with another major figure in 20th century European history - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshall of the Soviet Union
Zeth Witt yeah and the Marshall played the violin much to annoyance of colonel de gaulle
@@T.GLongstaff probably why he hated communists so much
True
Didn’t Tukhachevsky get purged and die before 1941?
@@isabelgonzalezserrano1229yep
“If you don’t like it... DEAL WITH IT”..
Your balls are growing by the day, Good Sir.
"Or comment about it ... I`m not going to read them" *giggle* lol
In older videos he was so apologetic about it. Not anymore
That's why he's only ever seen from the waist up.
Mariela Que His French, not so bad...
@@sonicgoo1121 AHHAAHAHAHAHAAAA, true
Can you please do one for Philippe Pétain?? Very few has a greater 'fall from grace' and 'live long enough to see yourself become a villain' than this guy
Right ? From the Lion of Verdun to the regime of vichy .
Regime? Vichy was the legitimate government of France!
@@patrickmunneke8348 Why would it be in Vichy instead of Paris then?
@@mat6840 because Vichy was the legitimate seat of government at the time.
Vichy France
France
Vichy
Vichy France
The name says it all in itself lol
Flamix Flame not everyone agrees. Just because it dominated over a region of France doesn’t mean people saw it as a legitimate government.
How the hell does a 6.5 feet tall sob passes as a nurse!???? LOL
this comments deserves a 1000 likes literally, LMAO
Didn't work, obviously. But the fact that he even thought it could is hilarious.
maybe male nursery officer or something???? but then again, 6.5 feel tall is virtually 'undisguisable' lol
Immagine being the German soldier...
Also, how the hell did he try to manage to squeeze himself in a laundry basket?!!!
"Great asparagus" is a common expression in French, to refer to a tall person. But of course, De Gaulle more than earned it: being 6.5 feet tall wasn't as common in the early 20th century as it is today!
No it was, today heights are over stated.
He needs to upgrade his airport.
LOLOL! Good one!
I’ve wondered if I was the only one to think that! The signage sucks.
Hahaha! Everyone I know who goes to France complains about it. My mom said it was disgusting!
Orly is just as bad
Wich one
The normal airport
Or the aircraft carrier
Not mentioned but hugely important: He reached out to Germany and established with Konrad Adenauer the franco-german special relationship via the Elysee Treaty in 1963. For someone with this background that was remarkable I think. So that would be the moment to request one on Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the German Republic :).
De Gaulle was betrayed by the germans and the americans.
The treaty was a traiterous act against France.
This is amazing to me as a german too and why I respect De Gaulle so much. He saw how flawed the past between germany and france were and how it only caused suffering, so he went against his upbringing and expierience and started a friendship together with Adenauer that shapes europe to this day. I'd say germany and france are the closest allies in all of europe
@@fuckinantipope5511 Also, when he visited the city of Stalingrad, he told the reporter who asked him what he thought, that they were a very excellent nation. At first, the reporter thought he was talking about the Russians. but at the end of his sentence he said "They were able to come this far"
"The Great Asparagus"
"Colonel Motors"
It's amusing to know how creative people were with nicknames in the past.
lol just watch British football supporters chant they are really creative too believe me
General Eisenhower was the only one to be allowed to call General de Gaulle "Charlie".
Should've called him Chuck.
"I demand to be at ze front of ze parade in Paris after you've spent tens of souzands of British and American soldiers to defeat ze nazis!"
"Lighten up, Chuckles. You can go up front."
"Chuck" is unknown in the French language, "Charlie" yes.@@hossesarse
@@gmicg Je sais, ami. But given DeGaulle's actual contribution toward his eventually walking on the Champs Elysee, I find "Chucky" more fitting. Shame on anyone who considers him more of a hero than the tens of thousands of Brits, Canadians, and Americans who died to allow him the privilege of leading the parade of liberation. Utterly pathetic. France is right to feel ashamed of their limp contribution toward their own liberation.
What he has done was a miracle for France. He couldn't make blood ooze from a stone as we say here. La plus belle femme du monde ne donne que ce qu'elle a.@@hossesarse
@@gmicg C'est vrai. En plus d’être pathétique, il n’était pas non plus très beau aussi.
..there was this anecdote when Charles de Gaulle was touring the Louvre museum, he wanted to impress his guests his knowledge of the French paintings and their painters.
He would point out rather impressively art works of Manet, Gaugain, Monet..and so forth.
Coming to one art frame,he declared authoritively.." aha!! This is a Picasso!"
The Louvre tour guide politely informed de Gaulle.." pardon me Monsieur president but, that is a mirror.."
Ah my friend, although I am French and admire General de Gaulle, I burst out laughing at this joke which I find excellent.
Thank you for this laugh.
I'm from India. I admire De Gaulle for his leadership and standing up for his motherland. You may criticize him for his heavy handedness but when you lead in any capacity, you have to take tough decisions.
Che De Gaulle was an extremely persistent and hardworking student. Despite having mediocre ranking, he never gave up and kept trying to pass every exam. This explains why he is such a natural leader. If WW2 had not broken out, he would probably be somewhere in the hierarchy of army command, getting nowhere.
He was disliked by British and American military leadership. They setup fake meetings so he could posture and attempt to command them. He is just some fictional superhero the French use to hide their embarrassment.
En 1939 il était au ministère de la guerre
Sometimes, one's name is its destiny, when your name is "De gaulle" (from the Gauls), it was obvious that he'd have a great destiny.
Gaulism became the name of his political ideology. Pretty dope name with a double meaning
@Peony Magenta I wouldn't say that but it's another debate haha
I have to say that, while it is true that DeGaulle believed himself to be the 'smartest one in the room', its probably because he was. His ability to immediately and incisively understand and describe the character of any man he met is amazing. His comment on Petain was brilliant: 'He (Petain) led a life that was successively banal, then glorious and then deplorable, but never mediocre.' was just genius. Ditto his description of Stalin. He gets my vote as one of the most successful (not to say lovable) political leaders of the 20th Century, along with Adenauer and Franco.
British and American military leadership ignored him and where annoyed by him. They setup fake meetings where he could posture and hand out commands that would be ignored. Really France just needed a fictional superhero to hide their national embarrassment, you could replace him with any other man.
I also notice that he had good instincts most of the time. Should have let Algeria go earlier but there were a lot of French settlers there.
@sydhenderson6753 He likewise warned JFK , I believe in 1962, that America's becoming involved in Vietnam would produce a 'tragedy '. How right he was there...again.
Using acid to eat through the controls of a transport plane (making it look like a mechanical malfunction) was a favourite tactic used by the British SOE to bump off undesirables. Another French commander in North Africa was dispatched thusly. De Gaul was a lucky lucky guy.
Simon Can you Do Chiang Kai-shek You can Call it The generalissimo also thank you for Doing De Gaulle
He's a prominent figure in Chinese history as well as very controversial. Choosing between him and Mao Zedong is like choosing between a rock and a hard place.
@@BHuang92 why not both?
It’s ironic, because the China that exists today is much closer to what Chiang wanted for the country then what Mao wanted
@@biteme9486 Chiang: *laughs from his grave*
@@biteme9486 At one point, Chiang was actually the highest ranked Chinese representative of the Comintern(the international organization of communism), and his KMT army received a lot of weapons and aid from the Soviets. On the other hand, the Chinese communist party was seen as kind of a rogue factor by the Soviets because of ideology differences(such as on the subject of peasants) and political interests.
Okay, I'm French and have no care at all for how Simon pronounces de Gaulle's name... but man, that Pétain is distracting. :)
Yeah i hope they don't do any thing like this on Pétain any time soon
@8534964 I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION.
General putain
:)
Petain doesn't care, he is dead.
Just so you know...I have shaken the hand of a man, who has shaken the hand of a man, who has shaken the hand of a man who has shaken the hand of Charles de Gaulle. I'm just sayin' heh heh
Me too. Statistically.
Six degrees of separation.
It is said that a Frenchman commits Seppuku By Baguette every time someone mispronounces "croissant". You'll be alright, Simon :)
Ignaz Semmelweis Biographics, please!!
also if crepes are mispronounced.
Semmelweis is a wonderful choice! I learned about him on a BBC documentary that was broadcasted in Brazil by the public TV Cultura in the 80s. The guy is a giant and probably the first one to use statistics in medicine.
What did I just read?
We often like to forget our baking power suicide attack on the panzer tanks. We took a lot of krouts with us.
Vlad, not critcising your claim, but a baguette seems to be a poor choice for a weapon. Then again, a Frenchman might well surrender before plunging that crusty goodness into his cheese-filled innards, so perhaps it is irrelevant.
I love history. The story of one man can sometimes be so interesting as a good TV show, in some cases even better.
Nice video, but on the invasion of Normandy it was Leclerc's 2nd Armoured Division to come ashore. General de Lattre de Tassigny's 5th Armoured Division would come ashore in Provence, south of France.
Leclerc was also the first in Paris.
oui c'est vrai qu'on ne parle pas de Leclerc dans la vidéo dommage
Yeah, Charles had to pull quite a few strings to make sure that French soldiers were the first in Paris
Exactly. But degaul had no problem taking the credit...
I mean if he loved France so much why didn’t he marry it
I am Married to the wall.
@@wrestlingisfakebutthetitti1687 Build the wall and crime will fall! ;)
Ken Fulton, an amrican have marry the Eiffeil Tower, so it's maybe posible
@@Zaltan-sb4lm it wont
How do you get the heat rising to consummate the marriage? 😉 Ooh la la!
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Early life
3:40 - Chapter 2 - A model soldier
5:30 - Chapter 3 - La grande asperge
7:20 - Chapter 4 - WWI
8:50 - Chapter 5 - The inter war years
11:45 - Mid roll ads
13:00 - Chapter 6 - France falls
16:50 - Chapter 7 - Reclaiming France
20:15 - Chapter 8 - The new france
20:45 - Chapter 9 - The algerian crisis
22:00 - Chapter 10 - End of the line
You almost lost it at “The Great Asparagus”. I died.
could you cover Gustav Mannerheim of Finland? :D. thanks for the great content!
Controversial ...
@@albinlindberg876 How?
Yes!! Manmerheim was a very interesting person and the perculiar situation Finland had been in during those years made things even more difficult for him as a leader. Torn between constant war with Russia and the threat of Germany. He played both sides masterfully all with the nation's intent at heart.
As a kid, reading about Mannerheim I never understood wether he was a classical 'good guy or bad guy'. I was super naive only thinking of things as black and white. While Finland's participation during that time was the definition of being in a grey area.
Thank you for the video. My grand mother often told me tales of his battles while looking at the 14th of july broadcasted on tv. This french fierce determination and courage always been shared in the family.
Your video is simple and long enough to talk a lot about his life. Plus it helps me with english language. Im subscribing.
Could you do Oda Nobunaga?
yes! I second this!
Janoriegam I third this notion
They should Hideyoshi too
Yes, please!
I recommend checking out videos on his bodyguard Yasuke. It's an amazing story.
I have a few ideas/wishes for you:
- George Washington
- Alexander Hamilton
- Abraham Lincoln
-John F. Kennedy
- Jim Lovell (Commander of Apollo 13)
- Neil Armstrong
- Freddie Mercury
- Nikits Krushchev
- Sergeij Korolev (Head of the Soviet Space Programm)
- Mjr. Richard "Dick" Winters (Officer in the Airborne in WW2)
- Michail Kalashnikow (Designer of the AK-47)
- Dick Cheney ( as comparison to the movie Vice)
- Carlos Hathcock (Marine Sniper in Vietnam)
- Michael Schumacher (the most successfull F1 Driver of all times)
- Niki Lauda (F1 Driver, especially known from the movie Rush, he just turned 70)
- Oscar Schindler
- Tom Hanks ('cause who doesn't love him)
I could go on forever. Perhaps there is someone in this list you are interested in making a video about. Eitherway i'm still going to watch every single video!
Thank you guys, you are incredible!
How did the assassins miss him. He's a bloody giant.
some people are just hard to kill.....
I think those assassins were bad shooter, lol
They got blinded by his brilliance
As every time in its very long history, providence or God or chance has always created exceptional men and women to save France.
@@olivierpuyou3621🤣😂😅 From his cosy house in the land of his country’s natural enemy.
A great man! In January 1964, France was the first among the Western powers to open diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. I don't know why, but as a Chinese, I would say he is a politician with foresight and intelligence.
He hated commies. He was a hypocrite. As a Hong Konger, I disapproved of what he did with scummy PRC China.
He would have done it to get one over France's "allies". Everything he did was for the glory of France and himself.
If I may suggest, I would like to see you speak of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
And Ian Smith, last president of Rhodesia.
Thanks for telling us about the world's tallest Frog.
Cool frog
Ian Smith was never president of Rhodesia, he however was Prime Minister from Independence till Rhodesia fall to Mugabe.
Since you just covered De Gualle you should do Phillipe Petain next. Would be interesting to see him here since you talked a little bit about him already. The title could be "The Hero of Verdun"
What’s your soldier loadout
All he did, quietly, he did for Bernadette his daughter, sheltering her from the outrage that war was, and choosing a modest village funeral and burial similar to hers, the burial next to her. He doted on her and Alsace-Lorraine. It is not the first, nor will it be the last time, France owes its rally to the sweetest passionate prayers of a most innocent girl or woman. And the defiance and courage of an autistic leader.
His daughter with Down syndrome's name was Anne not Bernadette (that would be President Chirac's wife name)... There is a Anne de Gaulle Foundation to support families with children with Down.
Great video.
For your information , De Gaulle was suffering from the Marfan Syndrom (see below) and died from it (aorta aneurysm) .
"People with Marfan syndrome are usually tall and thin with disproportionately long arms, legs, fingers and toes. The damage caused by Marfan syndrome can be mild or severe. If your aorta - the large blood vessel that carries blood from your heart to the rest of your body - is affected, the condition can become life-threatening".
Thank you for doing these, Simon. You are very enjoyable to listen to and they are so informative and interesting for me. Best wishes in 2020 for everything in your life. I listen from Cambodia. 😊🇰🇭
Thanks for making this! One of my requests from an earlier video.
8:25 The guards: That's one tall nurse... hold on... STOP!!!!
Thank you for the knowledge.
I don't know why you've suddenly started uploading a Biographics a day - but I love it. Did someone say Johnny Cash and Malcolm X?
a video on each channel each day = Cash
jimmy wayne very good 👏
@@jimmywayne983 it also means more content for us
"The Great Asparagus" is an absolutely fantastic nick name! I had to back up the video to see what I missed I was laughing so hard.
Does anyone else find the word "asparagus" to be rather funny?
You know it's not an exceptional nickname, I had a sweetheart who was 1.80 meters tall and very thin with milky skin.
And although much prettier than Charles, his nickname was the same.🤣🤣
So much videos, so little time to watch them ALL
Just correcting one of your statement a little bit: metropolitan France was mostly against Algerian independence and was hoping for De Gaulle to stay strong against the revolutionary forces. Despite that, De Gaulle chose to give independence to Algeria (it might not have been out of good will, but it was lucidity).
Also thank you very much for this amazing video. Your researches on De Gaulle's early life were really interesting considering this isn't something you get to learn in French schools. I have to say I found this video amazingly accurate compared to other history channels that often misunderstand French history. This was très bien.
Independance was given to Algeria after a referendum done both in France and in Algeria .And most of the French from the metropole ( i.e. mainland France) voted for the independance of Algeria.
I can just imagine a 6 foot something guy trying to pass as a nurse... no wonder it didn't work.
Could you cover Otto Skorzney?
Gipsy Danger Who was that?
@@mmlas8683 He was the best kommando Germany had during WW2. He rescued Mussolini with a hand glider and lead operation Greif, which was German Kommandos posing as allied soldiers to acquire intelligence and sabotage their supply chain. After the war, he trained Israeli snipers and then Egyptian forces, and also was body guard to Juan Peron. So a total badass
@@sneedler4661 well the "rescue" of mussolini was more or less staged, as the guards didn't resist at all.
Skorzeny made himself into a herofigure he never was
The fiction writer, who falsified his achievements! Good idea that balloon is ready for popping!
M Mlasovic a real life Bond villain
Love your channel. Brilliant!
Your introduction was bloody briliant!
"Yet his rather caustic, cold nature repelled more than his impressive appearance attracted."
I feel that 💀💀
Great as always, though think a bit more detail could have been done on the Algerian crisis. Also, I’m surprised there was no mention of the student riots of 1968: I can remember doing this in French a History, and it was probably only time in his life that De Gaulle almost panicked.
Great video, as always, guys!
Great video, well done.
The fact that he refused to learn the language of their natural enemy shows how extreme Patriotism is completely mad. It is of upmost pragmatism to learn the language of your enemy ....
He was nuts
He was based. I frequently talk broken English as an expression of my contempt for the English language.
French arrogance
@@djquinn11 Arrogance?
Pfft as if most british would learn french themselves despite being the french being their natural ennemy
Great vid man I’ve got an idea for the next vid if you want to hear how about Leonid Brezhnev
so helpful - Thank you!
ike, kruschov, churchill, and degaulle. names of national heroes from my youth. hugely impacting history for me. good vid.
My grandmother is French we have class looks and balls Germany as the third Reich dous not exist but France is still France free and proud
My favorite part of the story is when Simone said, "He arrived at her ass."
Love when you do french characters
Thanks for the history lesson
i ve watched every sec of this great life story in a nutshell of Mr De Gaulle!!well done
The images from 1943 Algiers, you can see a Renault Dauphine with a first production date of 1956 and a bunch of Renault 4cv introduced in 1947... And the picture used for the may 1945 armistice is actually the one from 1940.
This Guy is AWESOME The Great FRENCHMAN of both World Wars and modern France
We have one every century. He was definitly the one of XXth, and the greatest since Joan of Arc :)
I am quite flattered, thank you very much my guy
Great video. If you ever visit Dinant as i would encourage to do anyone you can still find a statue of him on the side of the bridge where he was shot. Its located on the riverbank opposed to the fort
He seems the perfect example to illustrate GOT's Tywin famous quote: Whoever needs to say "I'm the king", it's not the true king.
He was pretty successful in being president tho, and only left out of free will and not because he got dumped
It is funny because the allies couldn't understand why 5-stars french generals (Catroux, De Lattre de Tassigny) were obeying to him without the least protest whereas he had only 2 ^^
Could you add Carl Gustav Mannerheim to the 'to do list'? A very influential person who lived through some extraordinary times.
Golda meir, keep up the good work
Love your stuff
Can you do the famous Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins?
The front man of genesis?
HappyandAtheist they have done terrorists before. It’s not like it’s out of the question.
@HappyandAtheist When you misspell freedom fighter
@HappyandAtheist
Because understand terrorists contributes to terrorism prevention (like avenues to political participation and social upward mobility).
Original IRA of the 1920=/=Provos
Can we have a short biographic episode of Simon Whistler please? It will be a lovely change of pace to have Simon present on a more informal manner just for one episode.
Perhaps a short story about Simon's founding of the channel(s), why he went into You Tube etc.
Thanks for the videos! How about David Ben Gurion?
Condolences to him
I prefer 'le grande asperge' for De Gaulle, 'The Great Asparagus'. It suits him, lol.
Have a great day!
8:34 He was caught dressed as a nurse, and then claimed he was trying to escape.
After the war his wife caught him and several young officers in their bed, wearing nurses uniforms, administering butt injections and cleaning each others wieners orally, which Charles explained to her, after yelling "You styewpid wumann", was an old army custom that soldiers did to re-enact their war time activity and in remembrance of the old happy, *gay,* joli days xP
🤣😂😅
0:33
Usually, Simon reads off of a teleprompter for his videos, but I feel like that savage bit was 100% HIM! 😎
Found it very interesting, indeed. Great video.
Simon would you ever consider doing a biography on Michael Collins?
Yes, a nice Irish leader. Parnell would be good also
Padraig Pearse
@@coolguy1983 true lad. A true irish hero and one of the rare protestant men to fight for Ireland
Don't forget about Pearse, Connolly and TJ Clarke!
@@MattanzaMafiaFedora couldn't forget them if my memory was wiped
Simon I'd love if you'd do micheal Collins (the revolutionary).
Ps. I love your videos and can't wait to watch this one
Greatest Irishman to ever grace the earth.
You page deserves way more subscribers
Fantastic video
Just to point out Jean is the French masculine form of 'John'. Charles' mothers name was 'Jeanne' or Joan, pronounced quite similar to 'Jean' but very different (and Feminine) in its meaning!
Added to the fact that Jeanne is the french name of Joan of Arc ^^
Rock that Frenchman baby!
ah yes man of culture
"I'm not gonna read them" he's a role model lol I love this guy and his posh English accent lol
Simon's a good sport with the comment section and pronunciation
So, there was one french general who had an idea how ti fight a war, but nobody gave him the power to do so
There were several very capable generals who fought under free france
There are a LOT of capable French people in all disciplines ..but to succeed under the global hegemony of Murica you gotta be on the payroll of the anglo saxons in one form or another ...And the anglos particularly like to finance incompetents by preference
Snake remember what De Gaulle said: "The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
“Long live De Gaulle!”
“Who?”
“De Gaulle. The one who scarpered. The one with the big hooter.”
-Rene Artois
🤣😂😅
This channel is amazing
I need to know about this guy before I land at his airport
His best asset must be the skill of survival.
After all those failures and deaths of other men, he kept living and made it to the top as the "last guy" alive.
Very recommendable
I was googling for exacly this video yesterday and was wandering why haven't you make video about him
With a "friend" like de Gaulle you will never need to have another enemy.
cry about it
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Cry
Did you do Amerigo Vespucci yet? If not, please do... :o
Yayyy, my requests answered!
It is quite impressive how fast you get these biographies of people
It explains the mistakes
Great video! but nothing on the 5th republic constitution??? that was one of this main legacies
Wow. I'm French and I didn't even know De Gaulle and Pétain had a "personal" history. Not really surprising, but maybe that's why in the end De Gaulle pardoned him and transformed his death sentence in a life imprisonment.
Edit "Croix de Gueux" medal was involuntarily hilarious.
soit t'as moins de 20ans soit tu t’intéresses pas à l'histoire
ché pas j'ai l'impression d'avoir appris ca au lycée
@@Argozification c'est au programe de 3ème
There definitely could have been a part two to this one.
I like your videos you are great!