Short answers, pulled from the story.
Charles de Gaulle was born on the 22nd of November 1890 in the northern French city of Lille. He entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr in October 1910 after serving a year as a private and non-commissioned officer.
Charles de Gaulle suffered a bayonet wound to the left thigh and passed out from poison gas while leading a charge at Verdun on the 2nd of March 1916. He was captured by German forces and spent 32 months in six different prisoner camps, mostly at Ingolstadt Fortress.
Charles de Gaulle wrote Vers l'Armée de Métier (Towards a Professional Army) in 1934. The book proposed mechanization of infantry with an elite force of 100,000 men and 3,000 tanks.
Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of the 18th of June exhorted the French people not to be demoralized and to continue resisting occupation. This broadcast marked the beginning of his leadership of Free French Forces after he flew to London on the 17th of June 1940.
Charles de Gaulle abruptly resigned barely two months after forming new government on the 20th of January 1946. He returned to power during May 1958 crisis when the Algerian War threatened collapse of unstable Fourth Republic National Assembly.