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  1. Charles De Gaulle

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    Early Life and Military Career
    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was born in Lille, France, into a family of Catholic intellectuals with strong monarchist sympathies, though his father later embraced republican values.[1] He received a rigorous education, culminating in attendance at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, graduating in 1912.[2]
    De Gaulle’s early military service was marked by an eagerness for command and an early appreciation for mechanized warfare, a concept he championed in his theoretical writi…