Posted on May 20, 2021
Charles de Gaulle Biography - The life of Charles de Gaulle Documentary
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Full title reads: "To All Free Frenchmen".MS. General Charles De Gaulle standing behind his desk speaking in French about the French defeat. He states that t...
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“The Great Asparagus” was a patriot. Obstinate, self-centered, over-bearing, infuriating, frustrating, obsessed, totally committed and monumentally arrogant,. He was all of those things. But first and foremost, he was a patriot of the French Republic. L’audace, l’audace! Toujour l’audace!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Thank You for the share on CdG! A french patriot if there ever was one. Beyond the bio history and academic-history, on the entertainment side I remember a movie from 1973 (directed by Fred Zinnemann) called "The Day of the Jackal". It was a political-thriller about...
Well, here is the Storyline entry from IMDb
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It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book. "
Well, here is the Storyline entry from IMDb
"Storyline
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book. "
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1LT Voyle Smith
Carlos the Jackel’s real name is Illiach Ramirez Sanchez, an assassin who worked for the highest bidder. A product of the union between a Venezuelan man and Russian woman, he killed his prey with a 9 mm shot to the head, usually from behind. He was active in Europe in the 1970s and was finally apprehended by French police. He was tried and convicted of multiple homicides and currently resides in the basement of a French prison in Lyon. French authorities have promised to keep him there until he dies. He wasn’t the only threat during that period: the Bader-Meinhof Gang was also on the loose in Germany and the Red Brigades were active in Italy. Add to them the Irish Republican Army in Great Britain and the Mullucan Tribesmen in Holland and it all added up to an exciting time to be alive. I was unarmed when I lived there in 1973-76; my only defense was camouflage: I tried very hard to blend in with the locals - to look like them, act like them and speak like them (as much as possible).
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