Churchill was certainly reckless, myopic, and arrogant over his career. Thank goodness for that.
De Gaul was highly overrated, and merely tolerated by the allies lacking any better alternative figurehead to keep “Free France” in the war. I suppose he was the best post-war France could have hoped for.
The French were ga ga about him.
He was certainly a strange guy. (About 7 ft. tall or something crazy like that)
Anyway, he insisted (I guess rightly) that the French troops would march FIRST into Paris, on Liberation Day.
He basically made himself a real pain in the a#@ most of the time.
Sure, the Free French weren't that much, but DeGaulle did a lot after the war to straighten France out (all jokes aside). Churchill as a post-war leader was too tired and status quo to attempt anything new, but if France is something of a success in the world, DeGaulle gets a lot of the credit.