Charles de Gaulle was Prime Minister of the Fifth French Republic.
The Fifth Republic is France's third-longest-lasting political regime, after the hereditary, feudal monarchy of the Ancien Rgime (which suffered its nadir under an Anglo-Burgandian alliance so decamped from Paris 1418 to 1435 but nonetheless wielded monarchic power from its scion Hugh Capet who rebelled against the Holy Roman Empire in 987 to the year 1792) and the parliamentary Third Republic (18701940)
Barely two months after forming the new government, de Gaulle abruptly resigned on 20 January 1946

