Philippe de Gaulle , born the December 28th 1921, wire of Charles and Yvonne de Gaulle, is a sailor and Politician French.

Marriage

He marries, on December 30th, 1947 with Poncin (Ain), Henriette de Montalembert de Cers. He had 4 children:

• Charles de Gaulle born in 1948, lawyer elected UDF, passed in Front National

• Yves de Gaulle born in 1951
• Jean de Gaulle born in 1953, former deputy of Paris
• Pierre de Gaulle

Military career

At sea the June 18th 1940 with its family, it does not hear the Appel launched by his/her father, but is informed the following day on its arrival in Great Britain, and engages the 20 of it in the French Marine free (FNFL). Combatant during all the Second world war, it is affected in 1944 with the 2 {{E}} dB and orders a group of the Régiment Armor-plated Marine Fusiliers. August 25th, 1944, it takes part in the Libération of Paris, and is sent since the Gare Montparnasse to carry the order of rendering to the Germans cut off to the Palate-Bourbon in the buildings from the National Assembly. It must negotiate only in the middle of them, disarmed, with the risk to be cut down if the things turn badly. It fights in the the Vosges during the Hiver 1944 - 1945. During the War of Algeria, at the time of the Putsch of the generals, his ship installs in time to prevent that it is not possibly made prisoner by the rebellious soldiers. It continues a military career in the marine as fighter pilot in the Naval Aviation, which will lead it to the station of Admiral in 1971.

Political career

Philippe de Gaulle was senator RPR, then UMP of Paris, of 1986 with 2004. Let us note that at the end of the Sixties, a party gaullist " légitimiste" , the Center of the Free Republicans was constituted. Carried out by the ebullient Joseph Bozzi, brother of the deputy Jean Bozzi, it recommended the recourse to the admiral Philippe de Gaulle like only possible heir to the gaullism. Its influence remained very weak and it does not seem that Philippe de Gaulle ever guaranteed this project.

In 2006, Philippe de Gaulle becomes member of the committee of honor of the Mouvement initiative and freedom.

Decorations

• Large Cross of the Legion of honor (2005)
• Large Cross of the National order of the Merit

The de Gaulle general forever made her son Companion of the Release, undoubtedly by refusal to lend the side to possible charges of Nepotism. However, of the opinion of certain gaullists and companions, Philippe de Gaulle would not have been the last to deserve this supreme distinction, being given her immediate engagement in Free France and her states of services in the army during five years, often in first line. Philippe de Gaulle however did not see himself even not giving the Médaille of Resistance: his/her father says to him incidentally that at the committee in charge of the attribution of this distinction, " one does not have you proposé".

Memories

He is the author of additional Mémoires (2001) and especially of a work entitled De Gaulle, my father , published in the form of discussions with the writer Michel Tauriac. This work, which obtained a great best-seller and profited from a strong press coverage, is prone to many controversies, in particular with regard to the Guerre of Algeria. Philippe de Gaulle was thus condemned on March 23rd, 2006 by the Court of Appeal of Montpellier to pour one euro of damages like 1500 euros of court fees to each of the three harkis plaintiffs, for “slandering towards public representatives of authority”. He had indeed written: And then, everyone did not want to leave like these: 100000 Harkis which joined the army Algérie . The Court estimated that he insinuated by there that the assassinated harkis had died by their own fault or their error of choice.

Other passages were also denounced, such that allotting the events of May 1968 to the occult action of foreign secret services. When it evokes the remarks of his father on the Jewish people, one could note that it only once does not employ the term of Shoah or of Génocide. As for certain defenders of the memory of the Pétain Marshal or the general Henri Giraud, whose grandsons of this last Henri-Christian Giraud, they obviously very little tasted the very severe remarks of Philippe de Gaulle on Pétain, on the Régime of Vichy or Giraud, which was the principal rival of its father.

The historians were also very critical (see bibliography below). Pierre Nora for example, wrote that the admiral “had maréchalisé” and “had pétainisé” the general. He made raise by Jean Lacouture and Eric Roussel the coarse factual errors made by Philippe de Gaulle.

The admiral was also criticized a long time for his refusal to open the files of his father (with the provision of the public recently).