The Provisional Government of the French Republic was the provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberation of continental France after Operations
General Charles de Gaulle and the ministers of the Provisional Government, 2 November 1945
Charles de Gaulle photo Henri Manuel
Vincent Auriol – January 1946
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
Provisional Government of the French Republic
…nationale d'administration and laying the grounds of social security in France. The PGFR was officially created by the CFLN on 3 June 1944, the day before Charles de Gaulle arrived in London from Algiers on Winston Churchill's invitation, and three days before D-Day. The CFLN itself had been created exactly one year earlier…
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