Philippe de gaulle biographie courte
Philippe de gaulle biographie courte
Charles de gaulle (born 1948)...
Philippe de Gaulle
French admiral and son of Charles de Gaulle (1921–2024)
Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle (28 December 1921 – 13 March 2024) was a French admiral and senator.[1] He was the eldest, and last surviving, child of General Charles de Gaulle, the first president of the French Fifth Republic, and of his wife, Yvonne.[2]
Early life
De Gaulle was born in Paris on 28 December 1921 and was baptised on 8 June the following year in the Church of St Francis Xavier in the 7th Arrondissement.
He was educated at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, where his father had also studied, and subsequently joined the French Navy. According to Charles de Gaulle, Philippe was named after his family ancestor Jean-Baptiste de Gaulle,[3] but it has been suggested that he was named after General Philippe Pétain, of whom his father was a great admirer.[4]
Free French naval officer
A student at the École Navale at the time of the invasion