#224 Charles de Gaulle

De Gaulle's admirers have included both Henry Kissinger and Osama bin Laden. He has been compared by admirers and detractors to French figures as diverse as Charlemagne, Joan of Arc. Henry the Ninth? Louis the Fourteenth?

and Napoleon. And to non French figures as diverse as Bismarck, Mussolini. Mao. Castro

In Jesus Christ. The range of these comparisons reflect De Gaulle's extraordinary contradictions. He was a soldier. who spent most of his career fighting the army. A conservative who often talked like a revolutionary.

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