Charles de Gaulle
1890 to 1970
9 documented presences
6 places
Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Charles de Gaulle across 6 places, from 1890 to 1967. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 to 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Charles de Gaulle was documented, and when
22 November 1890exact date
Lilleattested
“Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was born on 22 November 1890 in Lille, the third of five children.”
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November 1922month
École de Guerreattested
“He studied at the École de Guerre (staff college) from November 1922 to October 1924.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
April 1927month
École de Guerreattested
“De Gaulle had sworn that he would never return to the École de Guerre except as commandant, but at Pétain's invitation, and introduced to the stage by his patron, he delivered three lectures there in April 1927: "Leadership in Wartime",…”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
November 1942month
Algiersattested
“Working with the French Resistance and other supporters in France's colonial African possessions after Operation Torch in November 1942, de Gaulle moved his headquarters to Algiers in May 1943.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
November 1942month
Franceattested
“Working with the French Resistance and other supporters in France's colonial African possessions after Operation Torch in November 1942, de Gaulle moved his headquarters to Algiers in May 1943.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1943year
Brazzavilleattested
“Encouraged, de Gaulle traveled to Brazzaville in October, where he announced the formation of an Empire Defense Council in his "Brazzaville Manifesto", and invited all colonies still supporting Vichy to join him and the Free French force…”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1961year
Franceattested
“De Gaulle returned to France after being assured of the military's support, in return for which De Gaulle agreed to amnesty for the 1961 coup plotters and OAS members.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
September 1962month
Germanyattested
“He set about building Franco-German cooperation as the cornerstone of the European Economic Community (EEC), paying a state visit to West Germany in September 1962, the first to Germany by a French head of state since Napoleon.”
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1967year
Franceattested
“President de Gaulle's position in 1967 at the time of the Six-Day War played a part in France's new-found popularity in the Arab world.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
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Places Charles de Gaulle is documented in
France3 presences · 1942 to 1967
École de Guerre2 presences · 1922 to 1927
Algiers1 presence · 1942Germany1 presence · 1962Brazzaville1 presence · 1943
Lille1 presence · 1890
Other places tied to Charles de Gaulle in the record
In each of these, a source puts Charles de Gaulle and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Charles de Gaulle was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1909year
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyrmentioned
“De Gaulle won a place at Saint-Cyr in 1909.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
October 1910month
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyrmentioned
“De Gaulle took up his place at Saint-Cyr in October 1910.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
August 1914month
Dinantmentioned
“When war broke out in France in early August 1914, the 33rd Regiment, considered one of the best fighting units in France, was immediately thrown into checking the German advance at Dinant.”
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August 1914month
Francementioned
“When war broke out in France in early August 1914, the 33rd Regiment, considered one of the best fighting units in France, was immediately thrown into checking the German advance at Dinant.”
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10 March 1915exact date
First Battle of Champagnementioned
“On 10 March 1915, at the First Battle of Champagne, de Gaulle was shot in the left hand, a wound which initially seemed trivial but became infected.”
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2 March 1916exact date
Douaumontmentioned
“As a company commander at Douaumont (during the Battle of Verdun) on 2 March 1916, while leading a charge to try to break out of a position which had become surrounded, he received a bayonet wound to the left thigh after being stunned by…”
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1 December 1918exact date
Dordognementioned
“On 1 December 1918, three weeks later, he returned to his father's house in the Dordogne to be reunited with his three brothers, who had all also served in the army.”
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1919 to 1921period
Polandmentioned
“After the armistice, de Gaulle served with the staff of the French Military Mission to Poland as an instructor of Poland's infantry during its war with communist Russia (1919–1921).”
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7 April 1921exact date
Église Notre-Dame de Calaismentioned
“De Gaulle married Yvonne Vendroux on 7 April 1921 in Église Notre-Dame de Calais.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1925year
Moroccomentioned
“De Gaulle disapproved of Pétain's decision to take command in Morocco in 1925 (he was later known to remark that "Marshal Pétain was a great man.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
November 1927month
Triermentioned
“In November 1927 he began a two-year posting as commanding officer of the 19th chasseurs à pied (a battalion of elite light infantry) with the occupation forces at Trier.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1928year
École de Guerrementioned
“Instead de Gaulle, drawing on plans he had drawn up in 1928 for reform of that institution, asked Pétain to create a special post for him which would enable him to lecture on "the Conduct of War" both to the École de Guerre and to the Ce…”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1929year
Académie Françaisementioned
“In 1929 Pétain did not use de Gaulle's draft text for his eulogy for the late Ferdinand Foch, whose seat at the Académie Française he was assuming.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1929year
École de Guerrementioned
“De Gaulle wanted a teaching post at the École de Guerre in 1929.”
source: Wikipedia: Charles de Gaulle
1931year
1931year
1937year
13 July 1937exact date
12 September 1939exact date
17 June 1940exact date
1943year
1944 to 1945period
1944 to 1945period
4 June 1944exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
André GideFrance · 1942Marie CurieAcadémie Nationale de Médecine · 1922Charles FabryÉcole de Guerre · 1927Guy Williams (actor)Germany · 1962Hanns EislerGermany · 1962Robert SiodmakGermany · 1962Stéphane GrappelliFrance · 1967Ossip ZadkineFrance · 1967Zinaida SerebriakovaFrance · 1967Douglas SirkFrance · 1967Antoine de Saint-ExupéryFrance · 1942Emil CioranFrance · 1942
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