Former French President Charles de Gaulle said ‘How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of ‘what’?
Charles de Gaulle a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" The Fourth Republic was wracked by political instability, failures in Indochina, and inability to resolve the Algerian question. On 13 May 1958, the Pied-Noir settlers seized the government buildings in Algiers, attacking what they saw as French government weakness in the face of demands among the Arab majority for Algerian independence. A "Committee of Civil and Army Public Security" was created under the presidency of General Jacques Massu, a Gaullist sympathiser. General Raoul Salan, Commander-in-Chief in Algeria, announced on radio that he was assuming provisional power, and appealed for confidence in himself.
Avenue Charles de Gaulle there was much damage to buildings along the street due to machine gun fire. The street was the site of destroyed cars and damage from the Battle of N'Djamena (2008) in February 2008. At this time the avenue was also cut off by heavy weaponry and was said to be severely affected. Avenue Charles de Gaulle Avenue Charles de Gaulle is one of the main streets and principal commercial avenue of N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, which is named after former French president Charles de Gaulle. It runs in a roughly west-east direction through the city. The western end of