Short answers, pulled from the story.
Charles de Gaulle started the Free France movement on the 18th of June 1940. He was a brigadier general who broadcast the Appeal of the 18th of June from London to challenge the legitimacy of the French government that had surrendered to Nazi Germany.
Free France gained control of French Equatorial Africa by the end of November 1940. Governor Félix Éboué of Chad pledged his colony's allegiance to Free France in late August 1940, and the region was wholly under Free French control after the victory at the Battle of Gabon.
The Normandie-Niemen Regiment fought on the Eastern Front with the Soviet Union. This fighter regiment of the Free French Air Force served from the 22nd of March 1943 to the 9th of May 1945 and destroyed 273 enemy aircraft.
The Free French forces were unified with the Army of Africa during the Tunisia Campaign in 1943. The French Committee of National Liberation, or CFLN, officially founded on the 3rd of June 1943, unified the territories controlled by Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle.
The Provisional Government of the French Republic ended Free France on the 3rd of June 1944. This government succeeded the CFLN and marked the re-establishment of France as a republic before de Gaulle arrived in Paris.
The Free French forces had over 1.3 million troops by the end of the war. They grew from a small group of volunteers to become the fourth-largest Allied army in Europe by May 1945.