General de Gaulle

Challenging the dollar's prominence enables France to challenge American power -- a tactic well understood by General de Gaulle in the 1960s when he denounced the "exorbitant privilege" conferred to the US by the role of the dollar as reserve currency.

Sophie Meunier: French Fried? The G20 Will Soon Find Out How "American" Sarkozy Really Is Sophie Meunier 2011

Challenging the dollar's prominence enables France to challenge American power -- a tactic well understood by General de Gaulle in the 1960s when he denounced the "exorbitant privilege" conferred to the US by the role of the dollar as reserve currency.

Sophie Meunier: French Fried? The G20 Will Soon Find Out How "American" Sarkozy Really Is Sophie Meunier 2011

Without France, people tell me absolutely everywhere, without "Monsieur Sarkozy and the people of General de Gaulle", without this first French strike on Saturday, March 19th, that stopped the first tanks cold in their tracks at the south gate of the city, nothing and no one could have prevented the "rivers of blood" promised by Saif al-Islam, the mad son of Gaddafi.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Return to Benghazi Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

It is a far cry from the heady days of René Lévesque, founder of the separatist Parti Québécois, and General de Gaulle's "Vive le Québec libre" in 1967.

French-Canadian separatists to protest during Prince William's visit to Quebec 2011

Challenging the dollar's prominence enables France to challenge American power -- a tactic well understood by General de Gaulle in the 1960s when he denounced the "exorbitant privilege" conferred to the US by the role of the dollar as reserve currency.

Sophie Meunier: French Fried? The G20 Will Soon Find Out How "American" Sarkozy Really Is Sophie Meunier 2011

It is a far cry from the heady days of René Lévesque, founder of the separatist Parti Québécois, and General de Gaulle's "Vive le Québec libre" in 1967.

French-Canadian separatists to protest during Prince William's visit to Quebec 2011

But it was actually General de Gaulle describing the UK before vetoing our EU accession.

David Cameron warns EU not to shut Turkey out Nicholas Watt in Ankara 2010

Can one hold that both Marsall Petain and General de Gaulle were French patriots?

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

Can one hold that both Marsall Petain and General de Gaulle were French patriots?

Petain, de Gaulle and Patriotism 2009

My requirement for a device to help me carry large biographies of General de Gaulle on trips to Turkish beaches is, I accept, a niche one.

Books 2009