Charles de Gaulle, commonly known as General de Gaulle or sometimes simply the General , born on November 22 , 1890in Lille and died on November 9 , 1970in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises , was a French soldier , resistance fighter , statesman and writer .
He was notably leader of Free France then leader of the French Committee for National Liberation during the Second World War , President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946, President of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1959, instigator of the Fifth Republic . , founded in 1958, and President of the Republic from 1959 to 1969, being the first to hold the highest office under this regime.