Gaulle obtained a great education at lycee Stanislas in Paris. In October 1910, Charles went to St. Cyr. Military Academy. Before de Gaulles life had become difficult with war and law, he married a woman that was 10 years younger than him. Her name was Yvonne Vendroux. Yvonne bore Charles three children: two daughters and one son. Yvonne and Charles met in Paris by mistake, on their part. What they did not know was that Charles god sister, who was a friend of the Vendroux family, had planned to hook them up from the start. The meeting was arranged for the night of the Salon dAutomne, the big annual art exhibition (Cook 37). Yvonne had no plans to marry a military man. She believed that because soldiers had to travel so much, military life left the soldiers family fatherless and husbandless. After about two to four weeks Charles and Yvonne, were engaged to be married. De Gaulle served as Second Lt. In World War I. After the war de Gaulle served in Poland With the French army, and then he served in the Middle East. De Gaulle studied and taught at Ecole Superieure de Guerre, which was a war college. Due to de Gaulles work and accomplishments, Marshall Henri Petain (marshal for France) appointed de Gaulle Secretariat of the Supreme War Council and then to the National Defense Council (De Gaulle Internet). France lost the war because Parliament (one of the head governments at that time) did not use one of de Gaulles many military techniques that he suggested to use to win one of Frances wars. Parliament appointed de Gaulle Undersecretary of war in Paul Reynaulds cabinet (Prime Minister at the time) because it was believed that if the technique de Gaulle suggested was used, that France would have won (Johnson). June 18, 1940, de Gaulle flew to London, and while he was there, he did a radio announcement to keep France fighting and keep up the struggle. Five days after the show, he founded the French National Committee (Cook 56). D...
