Tag Archives: Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle Birthplace Museum

Charles de Gaulle Birthplace Museum
Last Friday Eurostar celebrated the 70th Anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s historic broadcast from LNO on the 18th June 1940 which launched the FR resistance. A specially chartered Eurostar carrying a delegation of dignitaries and 720 French WWII veterans arrived in St Pancras... [Read more]

Meet a Legend in Lille

Meet a Legend in Lille
If you ask any person in the UK who is the biggest British politician of the 20th century, people are likely to mention Winston Churchill first. Ask the same question about France and the name of Charles de Gaulle will inevitably come up. British people might be quite defiant about... [Read more]