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[The Maison Natale Charles de Gaulle is closed to the public from June 19 to Tuesday, July 9, inclusive, due to the setting up of the next exhibition]
Charles de Gaulle was born at 9 rue Princesse in Lille, in the home of his maternal grandparents on November 22, 1890. Throughout his childhood and youth, this house was a meeting place for his family. It was here, in a family united by patriotic and religious values, that the character of the future President of the Fifth Republic was...