Charles de Gaulle’s 102-year-old son dies in France
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Charles de Gaulle’s son Philippe dies at 103 in France
The son of former French President Charles de Gaulle, Philippe, died at the age of 103. Agence France-Presse reports this.
It is clarified that the retired French admiral died on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in a national institution for the disabled. According to Philippe de Gaulle’s son, his father had been there for the last two years.
Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle born December 28, 1921 in Paris. Retired French admiral and former senator. He is the eldest child and only son of General Charles de Gaulle, the first president of the Fifth French Republic.
According to open sources, Charles de Gaulle said that he named his son after his family ancestor Jean-Baptiste de Gaulle, but it was claimed that he was named after General Philippe Pétain, of whom his father was a great admirer.
From 1986 to 2004, de Gaulle served as Senator of France from Paris. Towards the end of the 1960s, the Gaullist party, led by Jean Bozzi, advocated de Gaulle as the only legitimate heir of Gaullism (French political ideology based on the ideas and actions of General Charles de Gaulle, where the main idea is the independence of France from any foreign power and independence in foreign policy – approx. ed.)
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