That he was the providential figure who through his own determination had saved France and its honor after the blowout of May/June 1940; that as his voice crackled over the BBC on the 18th of June, 1940, a date that's still commemorated every year when there's a Gaullist in power and a mayor of France such as Chirac there's always a little event to commemorate that; that he had restored the integrity of France. 