CHARLES DE GAULLE (1890-1970) Photograph after car accident and handwritten letter addressed to him, accompanied by 2 postcards.

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- Photograph, AGIP, Robert Cohen, agence photographique de presse. 17,8 x 12,5 cm - Handwritten letter, addressed to General de Gaulle by the director of Cabinet, signed 'G. Galichon', dated 21 october 1965. Letterhead 'Presidence de la Republique - Le Directeur du Cabinet'. 1p. In French. 20,7 x 13,4 cm, - 2 postcards Georges Galichon (1915-2003) French diplomat. Called in 1961 as director of the private office of the President of the Republic, Charles de Gaulle, he held the post until 1967. Charles de Gaulle, commonly known as General de Gaulle or simply the General, was a French soldier, Resistance fighter, statesman and writer. President of the French Republic from 8 January 1959 to 28 April 1969. He was the first person to hold the supreme office under the Fifth Republic.