Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, son of General de Gaulle, died at the age of 102 on Tuesday. His son, Yves, explains on the microphone of the show “Pascal Praud et vous”, every day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., that it is not necessarily easy to find your place with the shadow of your grandfather . Listen to the excerpt again. You can react at 01.80.20.39.21.
It is one of the most illustrious families in France: that of General de Gaulle. An honor and a pride, but also sometimes a difficulty in finding one’s place. Yves de Gaulle, son of Philippe de Gaulle and grandson of Charles de Gaulle, says this in the show Pascal Praud and you. “It was not easy, nor for his children, to find the place that we could envisage in this very long shadow which was that of General de Gaulle,” he explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
He also makes a point of explaining that his grandfather showed no favoritism to his family. “My grandfather, the general, created three decorations, the Resistance medal, the National Order of Merit and obviously the order of the Companions of the Liberation. He did not give any of the three to his son” , he says.