Philippe de Gaulle, the General's eldest son, died at the age of 102. “Let us salute the memory of a formidable father and a great Frenchman, whose sense of duty was matched only by his elegance and modesty.
Vision, honor and simplicity, that is ultimately Gaullism,” wrote another son of the admiral, about X. ‘He died during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday at the National Institution of Invalides where he had been a resident for two years,’ said his son Yves.