📍1 Rue du Général de Gaulle, 52330 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France
1958 – 1970“I was born Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle on the 22nd of November 1890 in Lille, but I built my retirement home — La Boisserie — at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises in the Haute-Marne, and it was there that I went to think and to write and to recover from the defeats of political life. France had insulted me by voting No in the 1969 referendum, and I resigned immediately and went to Colombey and never returned to public life. I died there on the 9th of November 1970, the evening before the anniversary of the Armistice, sitting in my armchair playing patience. La Boisserie was the place where I wrote my memoirs and where I was most completely myself — the general without an army, the leader without a country, a Frenchman in the French countryside.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today
Sources: Jackson, J. De Gaulle (2003), Haus Publishing; de Gaulle, C. Memoirs of Hope (1971, translated Terence Kilmartin), Simon & Schuster