To describe Sir Winston Churchill as a critic of Charles de Gaulle would be an understatement. Having been given sanctuary here following the fall of France in 1940, when Churchill called him “the man of destiny”, the General went on to make himself serially prickly and unhelpful, infuriating Britain’s wartime leader with his moods and demands.
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