Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (1890–1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the French Fifth Republic and served as its first President.

Charles de Gaulle in The Man With the Iron Heart
Charles de Gaulle sought to reassert France's global importance after Wold War II. While the Allies did publically treat de Gaulle with some deference, privately representatives of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union looked at de Gaulle as pompous and France riding on the coattails of its Allies. Even Reinhard Heydrich held France in absolute contempt.