Early legislative elections were held in France on 23 and 30 June 1968, to elect the fourth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They were held in the aftermath of the general strike in May 1968.
Georges Pompidou 1969
François Mitterrand 1968
Waldeck Rochet 1968
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of t
1968 French legislative election
…elect the fourth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They were held in the aftermath of the general strike in May 1968. On 30 May 1968, President Charles de Gaulle delivered a radio address after a three-day public absence. During this time, he had gone into temporary exile in Baden-Baden, Germany, to avoid a…
De Gaulle in uniform, 1942
Charles de Gaulle, sometime in the 1900s
De Gaulle as a cadet in Saint-Cyr, 1910
A plaque in Dinant commemorating the place where Charles de Gaulle, then an infantry lieutenant, was wounded in 1914