Philippe de Gaulle
| Philippe de Gaulle | |
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Philippe de Gaulle
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| Born |
December 28, 1921 Paris, France |
| Allegiance |
 Free French Forces France
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| Service/branch |
 Free French Naval Forces French Navy
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| Years of service | 1940-1982 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 |
| Other work | Senator for the RPR and UMP (1986-2004) |
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Philippe de Gaulle (born 28 December 1921) is a retired French admiral and senator. He is the eldest child and only son of General Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, and his wife Yvonne, and is the only one of de Gaulle's three children still living as of February 2017.
De Gaulle was born in Paris on 28 December 1921, and was baptised on 8 June of the following year in the Church of St. Francis Xavier in the 7th Arrondissement. He was educated at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, where his father had also studied, and subsequently joined the French Navy.
A student at the École Navale at the time of the invasion of France in 1940, he did not hear his father's appeal of 18 June, but escaped to the United Kingdom and declared his allegiance to the Free French Naval Forces. During the Second World War he fought in the Channel campaign and in the Battle of the Atlantic. Promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1943, de Gaulle participated in the Battle of France (1944-1945) as a platoon commander of the armored regiment of marines of the 2nd Armored. On 25 August 1944 he participated in the liberation of Paris and was sent from the Montparnasse Station to carry the order to surrender to the Germans entrenched at the Palais Bourbon in the premises of the National Assembly. Risking being shot if things went wrong, he negotiated among them, alone and unarmed. He fought in the Vosges during the winter of 1944-1945.
De Gaulle was promoted to lieutenant in 1948, and received fleet command 6F in 1952. He was promoted to corvette captain (lieutenant-commander) in 1956 and to frigate captain (commander) in 1961, commanding the escort Quick Picard (1960-1961). He pursued a military career in the navy as a naval aviation fighter pilot and was made naval aviation commander of the Paris Region (1964-1966). Promoted to ship-of-the-line captain in 1966, he commanded the missile frigate Suffren from 1967 to 1968.
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