Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, son of the general, died at the age of 102

He was the last of the three children of Charles and Yvonne de Gaulle still alive.

He was the most famous “son of” the Fifth Republic. Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, son of the general of the same name, died at the age of 102 on the night of Tuesday March 12 to Wednesday March 13. “He died at the National Institution of Invalides where he had been a resident for two years”said his son, Yves de Gaulle, in a press release sent to AFP.

Born on December 28, 1921 in Paris, Philippe de Gaulle, a former student of the Naval Academy, joined the Free French Naval Forces in 1940. He had participated as an ensign in the campaigns in the North Atlantic until 1944, then at the Liberation in the Leclerc division.

Senator from 1986 to 2004

Lieutenant in 1948, lieutenant captain in 1956, admiral in 1980, he ended his military career two years later. The eldest of the three children of the de Gaulle couple was then a senator of Paris between 1986 and 2004 under the label of the RPR, then the UMP.

Philippe de Gaulle then devoted himself to preserving the memory of his father, publishing several works on the general, including De Gaulle, my father. “Let us salute the memory of a wonderful father and a great Frenchman. (…) Vision, honor and simplicity, that is ultimately Gaullism”reacted Pierre de Gaulle, one of the admiral’s sons, on the social network.