PARIS Fifty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle seized power in France in what was, in essence, a legal coup d etat.

As Charles de Gaulle forecast, It is not any European statesman who will unite Europe.

Charles de Gaulle took France out of the NATO military alliance in 1966.

During the war he was a supporter of Charles de Gaulle.

You get swine flu in Mexico, it's a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later.

Eisenhower, with General de Gaulle, will lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Charles de Gaulle has governed France for 10 years. France s largest party, the Communists, dominates the opposition.

For the first time since Charles de Gaulle established the Fifth Republic, France s priority is no longer to live in opposition to the US.

At a stroke, President Nicolas Sarkozy overturned one of the pillars of French policy and of the legacy of Charles de Gaulle, the founder of Sarkozy s own political party.

The French left, not surprisingly, rejects Sarkozy s Atlanticist impulses and frequently charge him with betraying General de Gaulle s legacy.

Under Charles de Gaulle, France combined faithfulness to the Western cause in time of crisis with a strong willingness to promote its diplomatic independence and freedom of maneuver.

But the constitution established by General Charles de Gaulle is strong, and Sarkozy will keep his position until the end of his mandate in 2012.

Vladimir de Gaulle?

With the promulgation of the 1958 French Constitution, under the Government of General de Gaulle, the colonial territories were given the chance to embark on the process that would eventually lead them to independence.

Is today s Union prepared to reverse a course first charted by such titans as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer four decades ago?

What the French under General Charles de Gaulle actually did say was that fiat monies should be jettisoned in favor of the gold standard.

The fiction, popularized by General Charles de Gaulle and pursued by François Mitterrand, that Vichy was not France had finally been interred.

As Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill once famously agreed When all is said and done, Great Britain is an island, France the cape of a continent America another world.

Charles Maurey.

However, Charles de Gaulle, who favored a presidential system, quit the government in 1946 and henceforth remained in the opposition until his triumphal return during the May 1958 crisis.

From de Gaulle to Putin

In France half a century ago, as the Cold War loomed, Charles de Gaulle easily convinced the French that they were heroic during World War II because he was heroic.

For 85 of the electorate went to vote in what has been the highest level of participation in presidential elections in France since Charles de Gaulle last ran for president in1965.

Charles Maurey.

PARIS Nearly 50 years after the creation of the Fifth Republic by General Charles de Gaulle, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to change France s fundamental institutions.

When Charles de Gaulle revived the French Republic after World War II, he ignored the history of Vichy France and Nazi collaboration by pretending that all French citizens had been good republican patriots.

Sarkozy has, in fact, brought about a rupture, albeit in an unexpected area the foreign policy consensus that has prevailed since the days of Charles de Gaulle.

General Charles de Gaulle declared himself on radio to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the US.

Good day, Charles.

GEN RASIM DELIC LT GEN RATKO MLADIC GEN MILIVOJ PETKOVIC

True, the General had been called upon and elected by the floundering French Parliament. But pressure from the French army, and rebellion in Algeria, did not give Parliament much of a choice.

Gilbert Charles Barthe (Switzerland)

He's all yours

General Sefer HALILOVIĆ General Milivoj PETKOVIĆ

General Sefer HALILOVIĆ General Milivoj PETKOVIĆ

(Signed) General EIDE (Signed) General COT

The general!

1787 Jacques Charles proposes Charles's law, a corollary of Boyle's law, describes relationship between temperature and volume of a gas.

Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers

The French left, not surprisingly, rejects Sarkozy s Atlanticist impulses and frequently charge him with betraying General de Gaulle s legacy. The majority of French people, however, appear to favor improving ties with the US.

Now this letter has always remained in my head, and that was one of the reasons at the time at the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, when General de Gaulle, for instance, did not want to participate in disarmament negotiations.

(Signed) G. AHRENS (Signed) General EIDE

Nobody in the General's room, not even the General.

The Ingenious General

General KeumHwee.