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|name=Charles de Gaulle
|name=Charles de Gaulle
|image=[[Image:Charles de Gaulle.png|200px]]
|type=t
|voiced by=''Unknown''
|image=[[File:Charles de gaulle BBS.png|225px]]
|age=1117 (born 1890)
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche
|first appear=[[Bender's Big Score]]
|age={{age|1890|11|22}}
|origin=[[Earth]]
|birth date=22 {{November}}, [[19th century|1890]]
|gender=Male
|death date={{date|9 November}}, [[1970]]
|job=General
|first appear={{f|1}}
|species=[[Humans|Human]]
|origin=[[Earth]], [[France]], {{w|Lille}}
|family=Wife, daughter
|job={{cat|General}}
|species={{human|Human}}
|family=''See "[[#Family|Family]]" section''
|wikipedia=Charles de Gaulle
}}
}}
'''Charles de Gaulle''' was a French general, and saved France from the Nazis during World War II.  In the 31st Century, he lives at the [[Head Museum]] in New New York.


== Additional info ==
'''Charles de Gaulle''' was a {{cat|s=no|French people|French}} {{cat|general}} and [[president (disambiguation)|President]] {{w|president of France|of the French Republic}}. He freed [[France]] from the {{cat|s=no|Nazism|Nazis}} during [[World War II]]. In the [[31st century]], he lives at the [[Head Museum]] in [[New New York]]. He appears at the Head {{cat|Museum}} after {{Hermes}} was decapitated, when {{Fry}} picks up Charles and pretends to be him. He is seen again while [[Lars Fillmore|Lars]] and {{Leela}} are walking through the Head Museum.


He attends the [[Turanga-Fillmore wedding]] along with {{head|Leonard Nimoy}} and a few other {{head}}s. After Hermes got his [[Time-paradox duplicate|doomed body]] crushed by a chandelier, Charles and Hermes had to share a jar for the time being. Charles also appears in the montage at the end of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' when Fry becomes Lars Fillmore and gets a job at the Head Museum, where he shakes hands with him. He also attended his funeral.
== Character Description ==
=== Family ===
*{{w|Yvonne de Gaulle|Wife}}
*{{cat|s=no|Children}}
== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia ===
=== Trivia ===
* While he does not play an important part in the show, it is suggestable that the only reason he is in the film all together is to fit with the [[wikipedia:Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] song ''[[wikipedia:30 Century Man|30 Century Man]]'', which is played a snippet of at the end of the film;
*As mentioned on {{commentary|Bender's Big Score}}, he was only added into the [[season 5|film]] due to the snippet of {{w|The Jigsaw Seen}}'s cover of {{w|Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker}}'s [[List of popular music appearances|song]], "{{w|30 Century Man}}", played at the end.
** I'll save my breath and take it with me,<br />'til a hundred years or so,<br />shame you won't be there to see me,<br />shaking hands with Charles de Gaulle.
*Fry has never heard of him.
 
=== Quotes ===
{{q|
<poem>'''{{cat|Singer}}''': I'll save my bread and take it with me, 'till a hundred years or so. Shame you won't be there to see me, shaking hands with Charles de Gaulle.</poem>
}}


=== Appearances ===
=== Appearances ===
* [[Bender's Big Score]]
*{{f|1}}


[[Category:Characters]]<!-- please add more appropriate ones-->
[[Category:French people]]
[[Category:Generals]]
[[Category:Heads in jars]]
[[Category:Historical figures]]
[[Category:Humans]]
[[Category:Military personnel]]

Latest revision as of 21:53, 4 May 2014

Tertiary character
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de gaulle BBS.png
Age1133
Date of birth22 November, 1890
Date of death9 November, 1970
SpeciesHuman
Planet of originEarth, France, Lille
ProfessionGeneral
RelativesSee "Family" section
First appearanceBender's Big Score
Film
Voiced byMaurice LaMarche
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Charles de Gaulle was a French general and President of the French Republic. He freed France from the Nazis during World War II. In the 31st century, he lives at the Head Museum in New New York. He appears at the Head Museum after Hermes was decapitated, when Fry picks up Charles and pretends to be him. He is seen again while Lars and Leela are walking through the Head Museum.

He attends the Turanga-Fillmore wedding along with Leonard Nimoy and a few other heads. After Hermes got his doomed body crushed by a chandelier, Charles and Hermes had to share a jar for the time being. Charles also appears in the montage at the end of Bender's Big Score when Fry becomes Lars Fillmore and gets a job at the Head Museum, where he shakes hands with him. He also attended his funeral.

Character Description

Family

Additional Info

Trivia

Quotes

    Singer: I'll save my bread and take it with me, 'till a hundred years or so. Shame you won't be there to see me, shaking hands with Charles de Gaulle.

Appearances