What is Charles de Gaulle?
{{Infobox_President | honorific_prefix = ''[[His Excellency]]'' | honorific_suffix = ''The [[President of France]]'' <br> {{small|[[Legion of Honour|GCLH]] [[National Order of Merit (France)|GCM]] [[Order of Liberation|CL]] [[Combatant's Cross|CC]] [[1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal (France)|MIV]] [[1914–1918 Commemorative war medal (France)|Mcg]]}} | name = Charles de Gaulle | nationality = [[France|French]] | image = De Gaulle-OWI.jpg | order = 18th [[President of the French Republic]] | term_start = January 8, 1959 | term_end = April 28, 1969 | vicepresident = | predecessor = [[René Coty]] | successor = [[Georges Pompidou]] | birth_date = 22 November 1890 | birth_place = [[Lille]], [[France]] | death_date = 9 November 1970 (aged 79) | death_place = [[Colombey-les-deux-Églises]], France | party = [[Union des Démocrates pour la République|UDR]] | spouse = [[Yvonne de Gaulle]] | children = [[Phillipe de Gaulle|Philippe]]<br>Élisabeth (dead)<br>[[Anne de Gaulle|Anne]] (dead) | religion = | order2 = 149th [[Prime Minister of France]] | term_start2 = 1 June 1958 | term_end2 = 8 January 1959 | president = | predecessor2 = [[Pierre Pflimlin]] | successor2 = [[Michel Debré]] |}} '''General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle''' (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) was a [[France|French]] military and political leader. He was president of [[France]] from 1959 to 1969. He was a founding member and leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War. De Gaulle chaired the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]] from 1944 to 1946 in order to re-establish [[democracy]] in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement: the [[Algerian War]] was happening. He rewrote the [[Constitution]] of France and founded the Fifth Republic after it was approved by a [[referendum]]. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was re-elected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.