The General.

France has immortalised the man who saved the nation by erecting an 18ft bronze figure in front of the Grand Palais, based on the photograph of the general striding down the Champs-Elysees amid ecstatic scenes after the liberation of Paris on August 26, 1944.
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969. In France, he is commonly referred to as Général de Gaulle or simply Le Général, or familiarly as "le Grand Charles".