Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle’s eldest son, died.

Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, the general’s eldest son, died in Paris at the age of 102, said his family. “He died on Tuesday night to Wednesday at the Institution Nationale des Invalides (National Abbot Foundation), of which he was an inmate for two years”, explained his son, Eve de Gaulle. Born December 28, 1921 in Paris, Philippe de Gaulle, who had attended the Navy School, had been recruited as early as 1940 to the Free France naval forces. He had participated as a lieutenant in the campaigns in the North Atlantic until 1944, then in the campaign of France (1944–45) with the Leclerk division, which led to the liberation of the country from the Nazi yoke. Lieutenant in 1948, commander in 1956, admiral in 1980, ended his military career two years later. Philippe de Gaulle was the eldest of three children of the de Gaulle couple and had subsequently become a Paris Senator from 1986 to 2004 with the parties of the right RPR and then UMP. He was dedicated to preserving his father’s memory and had published works for the general, including “The de Gaulle, my father”, which was a publishing success. For the “bright son”, as he described himself, the point was to give the human dimension of his prominent generator, leader of Free France and former president of the Republic, who died in 1970. “ We welcome the memory of an amazing father and a great Frenchman, the sense of duty of which rivaled only his elegance and modesty. Vision, honor and simplicity, this is ultimately goalism”, hailed another son of the admiral, Pierre de Gaulle, on social media X.