Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, the eldest son of General Charles de Gaulle, has died in Paris at the age of 102, his family told AFP today. “He died on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday at the Institution Nationale des Invalides (National Institution for Invalids), of which he had been an inmate for two years,” explained his son, Yves de Gaulle. Born on December 28, 1921 in Paris, Philippe de Gaulle, who had studied at the Naval Academy, had enlisted as early as 1940 in the Free French navy. He had participated as a lieutenant in the North Atlantic campaigns until 1944, then in the French campaign (1944-45) with the Leclerc division, which led to the liberation of the country from the Nazi yoke. Lieutenant in 1948, admiral in 1956, admiral in 1980, ending his military career two years later. Philippe de Gaulle was the eldest of the de Gaulle couple's three children and had become […]
Source: News Beast
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