Alain Poher
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Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher was a French politician who served as president of the Senate from 1968 to 1992 and as acting president of France in 1969 and 1974. Poher was affiliated with the Popular
Poher in the 1980s
Alain Poher in February 1949 as French General Commissioner for German and Austrian Affairs
Poher (right) speaking with Gaston Monnerville, his predecessor as Senate President, in April 1969.
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
Alain Poher
…becomes ad interim head of state until the next early presidential election. Poher's first service as interim president came on 29 April 1969, when Charles de Gaulle resigned. Previously he was one of Charles de Gaulle's most notable political opponents and played a key role in the successful "no" campaign in the…
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