You gotta love the French sense of humor...
Several years ago, Paris premiered a major production on deGaulle. It was advertised greatly showing him as a boy and a general... In referencing the resistance, it said, "This is the one who said NO..."
An 'Off Broadway' troop in Paris advertised their counter production with a gender bending take off on the line...
Oh no, “Ma Femme S’appelle Maurice” (the cross-dressing play to which you referred) was far from being “Off-Broadway”, it was a major spectacle. And it was very funny too.
BTW, it wasn’t about homosexual cross-dressers. It was, rather, about a heterosexual man who hides another heterosexual man dressed up as a woman to avoid implication in a financial scandal. Then the first heterosexual man himself has to dress up as a woman to avoid being caught in an affair by his wife. And then the police inspector investigating the case shows up poking around, and thinks that the two men are women, and chases them around lustily (”Je vais me regaler!”), until, of course, the whole thing falls apart and all is revealed, if I remember correctly (I saw it back in ‘97 or so), in the way that maximizes embarrassment for everybody involved. But nobody in it is actually gay. French farce is always about adultery and affairs (and is perfectly suited to the audience watching it, too), but nobody in Paris’d go watch a play about a bunch of actually gay guys parade around in dresses. To see THAT you’d best hop on the Eurostar over to London!
Charles de Gaulle was a great hero in his time. Along with Churchill, he was among the earliest to speak out against Hitler and the advance of Nazism.
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.