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A French statesman and general was born on November 22, 1890, Lille, France. In 1916, he served at the Battle of Verdun. In World War II he became brigadier general. He formed a French national committee after the fall of France. He also commanded French troops fighting with the Allied armies. In 1945 he became provisional premier-president but two months later he resigned. In 1947 he organized the Rassemblement du Peuple Francais (RPF) a new party. In the 1951 elections, the RPF won the largest number of seats in the French Assembly. During 1958, NA granted him the power to rule. He also supervised to draft a new constitution. He was elected as the President in December of Fifth Republic. As the architect of the Fifth French Republic, he instituted industrial, economic, governmental reforms and nuclear-weapons program. In 1965 de Gaulle was elected to a second seven-year term as president, but his margin of victory was narrowed. During the following years he irked many by urging the autonomy of French Canada and replacing the U.S. dollar as the chief international monetary-exchange standard, with a return to the gold standard. His request for the withdrawal from France of troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was fulfilled in 1967. De Gaulle wrote three books on military tactics, Edge of the Sword (1932; translated 1960); The Army of the Future (1934; translated 1941); and France and Its Army (1938; translated 1945); and of War Memoirs (3 volumes, 1954-1959; translated 1955-1960).
He died on 9 November 1970 in France.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal