Claim: Charles de Gaulle was Prime Minister of the Fifth French Republic.
Evidence: In 1958 , he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France , a position he held until his resignation in 1969.
The Fifth Republic , France 's current republican system of government , was established by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958.
The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the Fourth Republic , replacing the former parliamentary republic with a semi-presidential , or dual-executive , system that split powers between a prime minister as head of government and a president as head of state.