In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all,
and you tell me in only three words what comes to mind.
In Three Words...
Charles de Gaulle
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Intelligent, hardworking, zealous
ReplyDeletePatriotic, uncompromising, charismatic
ReplyDeleteStubborn, haughty, and imperious.
ReplyDeleteI was away for the week for Easter with my son, much to get caught up on.
"the great asparagus"
ReplyDeleteCourageous/Brave/Rigid
ReplyDeleteMisérable, opportuniste, vaniteux
ReplyDeleteUn lâche qui s’est attribué les accomplissements d’autrie.
-Beau Mec à Deauville
I'll just comment on the Handsome Guy in Deauville's comment. I would guess that all of the Americans saw Charles de Gaulle in a scrubbed and sanitized image that our administration wanted us to see. I'm sure French history and the French people have a much different view of him. I admire your candor and differing opinion.
DeleteA French friend of ours deeply venerated de Gaulle. We did not tell him how we felt.
DeleteI've had a similar experience with the French. To them, he's a hero. Like Napoleon, he's deeply unpopular with us Brits. Jx
DeleteOui, DeGaulle a manifesté du mépris envers beaucoup.
DeleteTrop complexe pour son propre bien.
A Distinctive Profile
ReplyDeleteMan for Century!!
ReplyDeleteArrogant,stern,superior
ReplyDeleteComplex, polarizing, difficult.
ReplyDeleteI read a book on him recently. Charles de Gaulle is generally not considered evil, but rather a complex, intensely nationalistic, patriot. While recognized as a war hero who led the Free French against Nazi occupation and established the Fifth Republic, he was equally viewed by allies as arrogant, difficult, and obsessed with France's, and his own, grandeur. is "France-first" approach led to strained relations with NATO and the US.
Trump, only French. Jx
DeleteRevered by some.
ReplyDeleteDetested by others.
Detested Adulated Rejected.
ReplyDeleteAprès moi, le déluge.
ReplyDeleteFree French Underground
ReplyDeleteIntelligent, aloof, non-likeable.
ReplyDeleteHero and/or demon
ReplyDeleteThe Great Nose
ReplyDeleteArrogant anti-Brit bastard
ReplyDeleteHis airport sucks.
ReplyDeleteThough it's nearly as bad as Heathrow, which sucks so much worse.
Seemed ruling forever. Jon
ReplyDeleteNasty-minded pompous git.
ReplyDeleteJx