Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle

He sometimes compares himself to France's late General Charles de Gaulle who won by insisting on being 'the man who says no'...

The late President Charles de Gaulle's old Africa chief Jacques Foccart whom Chirac had brought out of retirement died at the same time...

This measure is one of several that could be put to referenda which Algerian politicians – like their political godfather the late French President General Charles de Gaulle – habitually win...

But the plotters a group of mercenaries led by veteran troublemaker Staff Sergeant Ibrahim Coulibaly ('IB') were arrested not in Abidjan but by French security agents at Paris's Méridien Montparnasse hotel and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport...

When asked about his future role he replies cryptically that like Charles de Gaulle he will be a general until he dies...

It was founded by President Charles de Gaulle during decolonisation in the early 1960s as a political instrument...

Sentimental ties have faded especially since the death of Houphouët-Boigny in December 1993 and of some old French agents who remembered the days of General Charles de Gaulle...

It is a reflection of how grave the region’s spiralling conflicts are that Britain and France are now working more closely on Africa policy than at any time since General Charles de Gaulle established a base for the Free French (Resistance) in West Africa in 1940...

The latest state television advert in Nigeria celebrates the achievements of great military leaders who have pulled their countries back from the brink of disaster: men such as George Washington Charles de Gaulle Jerry Rawlings and yes President Suharto...

The French Ministry of Cooperation is guided by protégés of Jacques Foccart the elderly Gaullist fixer who was President Charles de Gaulle's African éminence grise...