France under De Gaulle 1968 crises 1968: Europe 1968: France 1968: International Banking And Finance Algerian independence associates and contemporaries Berlin crisis biography of De Gaulle constitutional referendum domestic policies election fictional assassination attempt in The Day of the Jackal foreign relations influence on Jacques Chirac military affairs picture, De Gaulle’s June 18, 1940 Radio Address post-war politics (1948) presidency of France quotations resignation return to power (1955) table of French Presidents and Prime Ministers withdrawal from politics World War I, taken prisoner at Verdun World War II resistance and liberation