Title: Free France
Content: Free France Free France and its Free French Forces (French: "France Libre" and "Forces françaises libres") were the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War and its military forces, that continued to fight against the Axis powers as one of the Allies after the fall of France. Set up in London in June 1940, it organised and supported the Resistance in occupied France. Charles de Gaulle, a French government minister who rejected the armistice concluded by Marshal Philippe Pétain and who had escaped to Britain, exhorted the French to resist in his BBC broadcast "Appeal of

Title: Free France
Content: Bank". To this day, General de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June 1940 remains one of the most famous speeches in French history. Free France Free France and its Free French Forces (French: "France Libre" and "Forces françaises libres") were the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War and its military forces, that continued to fight against the Axis powers as one of the Allies after the fall of France. Set up in London in June 1940, it organised and supported the Resistance in occupied France. Charles de Gaulle, a French government minister who rejected the armistice

Title: Free France
Content: by Governor-General Armand Léon Annet. On 5 November 1942, Annet, at last, surrendered. As in Syria, only a minority of the captured Vichy soldiers chose to join the Free French. After the battle, Free French general Paul Legentilhomme was appointed High Commissioner for Madagascar. Throughout 1942 in North Africa, British Empire forces fought a desperate land campaign against the Germans and Italians to prevent the loss of Egypt and the vital Suez canal. Here, fighting in the harsh Libyan desert, Free French soldiers distinguished themselves. General Marie Pierre Koenig and his unit—the 1st Free French Infantry Brigade—resisted the "Afrika Korps"

Title: Free France
Content: so successfully put in practice by the Wehrmacht, and he commanded the 4th Armoured Division at the Battle of Montcornet. He favoured continued resistance against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, but found himself part of a small group of politicians who felt this way. Prime Minister Paul Reynaud sent him as an emissary to London to help negotiate a proposed union between France and Britain, but after this plan collapsed, Reynaud resigned on 16 June. That same day, the new French President of the Council, former First World War Marshal Philippe Pétain, began negotiations with Axis officials. De Gaulle briefly

Title: Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Content: Military Division at Montpellier, refused the orders not to fight the Germans and was the only active to order his troops to oppose the invaders. He was arrested but escaped and defected to Charles de Gaulle's Free France at end of 1943. From 1943 to 1945 he was one of the senior leaders of the Liberation Army, commanding the forces which landed in the South of France on 15 August 1944, then fought up to the Rivers Rhine and Danube. He was the only French general of World War II to command large numbers of American troops, when the US

Question: Who led the Free French forces during World War II?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle