Coincard France 2020 - Charles DeGaulle Series with the € 2 coin (27521)
Coincard France 2020 -Charles de Gaulle liberation series-
Honoring General Charles de Gaulle, in a series of 4 coincards. This is the Liberation of Paris and the famous march of the Champs Elysees.
The 2 € commemorative France 2020 Charles de Gaulle included in the coincard.
This series is limited edition, it is known only to the greatest collectors.
Coincard with 2 euro coin
Charles de Gaulle, communément appelé le général de Gaulle ou parfois simplement le Général, né le 22 novembre 1890 à Lille et mort le 9 novembre 1970 à Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, est un militaire, résistant, homme d'État et écrivain français.
Il est notamment chef de la France libre puis dirigeant du Comité français de libération nationale pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, président du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française de 1944 à 1946, président du Conseil des ministres de 1958 à 1959, instigateur de la Cinquième République, fondée en 1958, et président de la République de 1959 à 1969, étant le premier à occuper la magistrature suprême sous ce régime.
August 26, 1944
When the fighting in the west of France and the first German retreats were announced, the population of Paris was agitated in August 1944: the general strike was declared on August 18 and the streets were soon bristling with barricades. . Everywhere, posters call on the people of Paris to rise up and drive out the German occupiers.
On August 24, faced with the insistence of General de Gaulle, General Leclerc, at the head of the 2nd Armored Division, was dispatched to Paris where he entered on the 25th and where he received the surrender of General von Choltitz, commander of the German forces in Paris.
General de Gaulle joined him at the Gare Montparnasse then went to the Town Hall to meet the leaders of the Resistance. There, de Gaulle gave a speech which had become famous: “Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! but Paris liberated! … ”
The next day, August 26, 1944, General de Gaulle rekindles the flame of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and descends the Champs Elysees, to the cheers of a crowd of now free Parisians.
