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.