How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?
Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a 246 variétés de fromages?

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Charles de Gaulle
French general and statesman (1890-1970). He led the Free French in WWII, founded the Fifth Republic in 1958 and ran it for ten years. By leaving NATO command and building nuclear deterrence, he defined Gaullism.
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