De Gaulle said Churchill was leading Britain “towards the heights of one of the greatest glories in the history of the world.” Speaking in English with tears in his eyes, Churchill recalled his broadcast to France in October 1940: “I did not fear to address the French people in French to tell them that a day would come when France would take her place at the head of the great nations and play her part as the champion of liberty and independence.” The post Eighty Years On: Churchill in...
