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  1. (in World War II) the French movement, organized in London under the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle, that repudiated the 1940 armistice with the Nazis and the government established at Vichy and fought for the liberation of France and the restoration of the republic.


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He eventually entered to find his boss, Winston Churchill, and Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, puffing cigars and “sitting side by side with amiable expressions on their faces.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

The plane landed somewhere near the Belgian border and the crew were rescued by the Free French Forces.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2023

On the day after Paris’s liberation, Ms. Segouin marched in a victory parade only steps away from Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, down the Champs-Élysées.

From New York Times Mar. 17, 2023

The other was Bernard Schlumberger, a Protestant from Alsace, who was to be the Free French army's envoy in the Toulouse region of south-west France.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2021

They ask a total of one question: about three Free French flags rolled up in a second-floor closet.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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