As little Anna grew up, every day after dinner, Charles de Gaulle always took her daughter's hand for a walk in the garden, and told stories, sang songs and performed pantomime for her from time to time. Although little Anna can't talk, she laughs like other children when she is happy, and her father is the only one who can make her laugh. Anna was tired of playing and fell asleep in her father's arms. When Charles de Gaulle accompanied his daughter, he was never impatient or bored. Even during his exile in World War II, he took Anna with him. He always soothes the trauma of little Anna's heart with divine fatherly love. De Gaulle was thrifty all his life, but he set up a special trust fund for Anna and mortgaged it with the copyright fee for writing memoirs.
Anna was about to celebrate her 20th birthday, but unfortunately she was killed by hepatitis. After the burial ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. De Gaulle stood in front of their daughter's grave with tears in their eyes for a long time, as if they still had a lot to say to their children. It was already dark, and Charles de Gaulle said to his wife, "Let's go, now she is like everyone else." After Anna's death, President Charles de Gaulle made a painful decision to turn the house where Anna lived into the office of the Anna de Gaulle Foundation, and decided to continue to help children with Down's syndrome like his daughter. "General, do you think you can represent France alone?" When Charles de Gaulle, then a brigadier general, fled to Britain and asked Churchill to use the British broadcasting station to make an appeal to France for the war of resistance, British Prime Minister Churchill half-jokingly questioned it. De Gaulle's face was unhappy. He thought for a long time and said quietly, "Of course! No government has the right to legally betray its country and people. Now, France is invaded by Germany, and I am the only member of the government who insists on resisting. Once the current government announces its surrender, I will take over the wartime regime on behalf of the French people. " In this way, this dialogue enabled the great men of the two countries to start the formal cooperation in World War II, and also started the differences and quarrels arising from national interests.
In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's uncompromising attitude and independent attitude bored Churchill. According to British archives, in September of 1940, he considered whether he could send Charles de Gaulle to fight Italians. Similarly, Charles de Gaulle often accused Churchill of being too servile to Roosevelt. The two often mock each other's language level. Charles de Gaulle speaks poor English. When he first arrived in England, he began to try to express a complete sentence in English, but his pronunciation was really poor. Churchill always laughed at his English, and Charles de Gaulle laughed at Churchill's French in turn. Finally, they must talk in their mother tongue through an interpreter. Just after World War II, their fates were very different. Charles de Gaulle, who fled to Britain alone, became the commander-in-chief of the French armed forces, while Churchill was defeated in the national election. At that time, Churchill, who was attending the Potsdam meeting, was forced to interrupt the meeting and return home. He felt extremely humiliated, and his mind was full of the famous words of the famous writer Plutarch: "It is the characteristic of all powerful nations to be ungrateful to great people." Only a few months later, Charles de Gaulle was worshipped by the French people and was elected Prime Minister of the interim government with 100% approval vote. Churchill immediately wrote a congratulatory letter to Charles de Gaulle, saying, "Plutarch is wrong!" " "
After reading Churchill's congratulatory letter, De Gaulle smiled and shook his head. This old friend who fought side by side with himself for five years! Although in the days of exile in England, in order to safeguard the dignity and interests of France, he always maintained a arrogant and stubborn attitude in front of Churchill, and even had fierce quarrels with him many times. But in his lonely heart, Churchill is still the only person he can call a "friend" in this world. Besides, he is an enemy, an opponent or a subordinate. De Gaulle has always had a wish, that is, to personally set foot on the land of China. If it weren't for fate, he would undoubtedly find this great country by himself. De Gaulle was full of keen interest in China and expressed his desire to visit China many times. He likes reading books about China, communicating with people who have been to China, and visiting French sinologists many times.
De Gaulle originally planned to visit China at the end of 1970, and planned to take "Meeting with Mao Zedong" as the last chapter of his memoir, and also prepared to attach photos of his meeting with Mao Zedong. However, due to the sudden death of a heart attack, Charles de Gaulle finally failed to realize this wish. Flags were flown at half-mast at Tiananmen Square, in front of Xinhua Gate and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is the first time that China has given such courtesy to a foreign head of state. Mao Zedong said in a message of condolence to Madame de Gaulle that De Gaulle was "an unyielding fighter against fascist aggression and defending French national independence".
In the book, Philippe de Gaulle, the son of Charles de Gaulle, recorded his father's feelings about China: "I still remember it vividly: one night, after dinner, my parents were absorbed in reading an album with a picture of the Great Wall extending to the horizon."