This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) is one of the world’s most critical transit hubs – it’s also, perhaps, one of the ...

“The instability of our governments dismays our friends around the world, and makes us the laughing stock of our enemies.” Thus spoke the political leader in a clipped accent and stern tone. A sense ...

France’s economy has benefited immensely in recent years from two simultaneous developments: the rise to power of Charles de Gaulle and the establishment of the six-nation Common Market in 1958. Since ...

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.” The ...

German soldiers and officers saw Charles de Gaulle less as a battlefield commander and more as a powerful symbol of French resistance. After France’s rapid defeat in 1940, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from ...

We already have plenty of biographies of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, as well as a "magisterial" joint study by François Kersaudy, published in 1981. But in this "relatively short ...

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A departures information board at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport on July 3, 2025, as French air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike to demand better working conditions, disrupting travel ...

Over the past week, a new front has opened on the war in Gaza. It is not, however, along the banks of the Jordan with Israelis and Hamas pitted against one another, but instead along the banks of the ...

When Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January 2025, one of the first things he did was to prominently display the bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office once again. Four years before, ...

To the Algiers Consultative Assembly, General Charles de Gaulle spoke confident, defiant words: “France need not worry about what is said beyond her frontiers. You need only to consider the nation’s ...