Charles de Gaulle museum

Part one of a series of three blogs.

There’s a small village about 50 minutes from us called Colombey-les-deux-Églises. It was the home of Charles de Gaulle, where he lived with his family from 1934 until his death in 1970. It is now also home to a very considered museum, dedicated to the life of Charles de Gaulle.

It’s not a museum that goes un-noticed, as above it stands a rather large and distinctive structure, the Cross of Lorraine. During WW2 it became the symbol of Free France. The emblem of the cross had previously been used by the crusaders, and was perfect for the Free France movement as it was an easy symbol to reproduce graphically, and was rapidly painted on Free France ships and aeroplanes. It was also adopted by the French resistance, both inside and outside of the country.

The museum itself is extremely well thought out and very well presented. We have visited it perhaps four times already, and we always enjoy it, there’s so much to see and read.