Charles de Gaulle worked for the President of the Fifth French Republic.
=== Assassination attempts ===De Gaulle was targeted for death by the Organisation arme secrte (OAS), in retaliation for his Algerian initiatives
 A rare insight into de Gaulle's political views is a letter to his mother warning her that war with Germany was sooner or later inevitable and reassuring her that Pierre Laval's pact with the USSR in 1935 was for the best, likening it to Francis I's alliance with the Turks against the Emperor Charles V

