Charles de Gaulle was not the French prime minister. That job belonged to Paul Reynaud. De Gaulle had been undersecretary of state for defence in Reynaud’s government for less than two weeks.

The eldest son of French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle has died on Wednesday, March 13, at 102 years old. In his book De Gaulle, mon père ("De Gaulle, My Father"), Philippe de Gaulle lifted ...