De Gaulle, this "unknown" war hero, that gets a regain of popularity across the pond

and I give you the point in the center (je vous le donne dans le mille) : because he was practicing religion

The Golden Anniversary of de Gaulle's France

By Bruce Walker

Americans love to hate France. Mark Twain, the quintessential American writer, described man as lying somewhere between the angels and the French. Jonah Goldberg, in our times, has called the French "cheese eating surrender monkeys." These whimsical American commentators sum up well American feelings about the French.

This dislike is reciprocated. It is connected to the great historical rivalry between the English-speaking world and the French-speaking world. It also is tied to the fact that France once dominated Europe and occupied much of the planet, while France today is largely just France. Bismarck once said that the most important political fact of the 19th Century was that America and Britain spoke the same language. True, today, and more: Australia, most of Canada, and the administration of India are based upon the English language. Canadians can tell you how much Canadiens resent this.

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my comment :

here an interesting site about De Gaulle, I recommand you to visit all the links, also if you can read french, there are different enlightenings

Charles de Gaulle

All I can say is that De Gaulle has been our greatest political and military personality of the 20th century, a superior man, alike Churchill, Roosvelt, and finally also Stalin as far as political intelligence is concerned.

What the Anglo-saxons found as arrogant in his attitude, was more a spirit of "resistance" to the well shared contempt of the Brits and of the Roosvelt administration, but most of all he was a great patriot that projected our independance as a moral duty.

That's why he has to resist, not only to the german invasion, but after the war, to the anglo-saxonisation of our country, and if you still find any interest in our country today, it's because he saved our cultural values.

as far as saying that France couldn't defend Poland in 1939, what did the Brits better than us ? who could fooly cross the mighy Germany to help Poland, when Hitler managed Bliztkrieg through Belgium and Nederland first, that surrendered before France, and when the Brits acknoledged that German forces were not a joke, they ran away through Dunkeerque back to UK.

None could resist to this brutal power, even the US were not prepared to war in 194o, and if you'd been vicinal to Germany at this time, I bet you would also have been defeated.

So the french-bashing along our supposed easy surrending was mainly a perfid reading of our history from the Anglo-saxon bias, that is still well maintained through the Brits papers, could be that they can't pardon us Joan of Arc.

I would not invoque the christian faith of de Gaulle for what he did, he was very discret about it, you can't find it in his writings, the objective truth is that he was a warrior first of all. For corroborating what I say, de Gaulle had the impertinence, in regard to the US occupation of France, to take a few communists that were valorous resistants in his first governments and to quit Nato instances when he definitly acknoledged that France was then a vassal of the Anglo-Saxons.

Then He made the right decisions for us, initiated the nuclear energy for civil and military independance, he turned his policy towards new horizons, China and the Arab world, that of course couldn't fit Israel agenda anymore, but that saved us from bankrupty, cause after giving the independance to Algeria, that ment for us a loss of about 300 thousands jobs, not counting the loss of currenties that were not entering anyore in the bank accounts.

De Gaulle was criticised by the lefties while he was heading our state, nowadays there aren't anymore one of them that would dare it, only a few of the former Algerian colons, those that also refused to host de Gaulle during WWII, but were sympathetisans to Vichy, that were, for most of them, not from french ancestry, the very Frenchs "colons" were mostly military and administrative people.