He took part in August 10 alongside the insurrectional Commune and was partly responsible for the September massacres. Conventional, he joined the Montagnards and opposed the Girondins. He was sent on a mission to Bordeaux during the Terror in 1793. After the arrest of his mistress (who was a noblewoman), he broke with Robespierre and participated in Thermidor. He takes the opportunity to free his mistress who will become his wife, Mrs. Tallien remains very famous for her beauty and her extravagant outfits, she was nicknamed "Our Lady of Thermidor". Tallien, meanwhile, took severe measures during the Thermidorian reaction. He was then a member of the Five Hundred. He leaves for Egypt to follow Bonaparte. Under the Empire, the latter grants him a pension, but forgotten Tallien ends his life in misery.
Born in Lille in 1890, de Gaulle came from a cultured Catholic family. He headed very early for a military career. He published, before the Second World War, essays on the military strategy of armored vehicles. Appointed Under-Secretary of State for National Defense in June 1940, he was in favor of