{"id":12035,"date":"2021-03-16T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidelondon.org.uk\/blog-fr\/the-long-footsteps-of-charles-de-gaulle-in-london\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:55:42","slug":"sur-les-grands-pas-de-charles-de-gaulle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidelondon.org.uk\/fr\/blog-fr\/autour-de-londres\/sur-les-grands-pas-de-charles-de-gaulle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sur les grands pas de Charles de Gaulle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ministre subalterne d\u2019un gouvernement en \u00e9tat de dissolution, g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de brigade d\u2019une arm\u00e9e en d\u00e9route, Charles de Gaulle atterrit – apr\u00e8s un vol \u00e9prouvant et p\u00e9rilleux en provenance de Bordeaux – \u00e0 l\u2019a\u00e9roport de Heston, \u00e0 l\u2019ouest de Londres, l\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi du 17 Juin 1940. Dans les milieux politiques et militaires de Grande Bretagne il \u00e9tait quasiment inconnu : seul Churchill lui-m\u00eame avait remarqu\u00e9 \u00ab un jeune g\u00e9n\u00e9ral \u00e9nergique qui s\u2019appelle de Gaulle \u00bb. (Sachez d\u2019ailleurs que l\u2019acteur qui interpr\u00e8te Churchill dans le film biographique \u00ab De Gaulle \u00bb de Gabriel Le Bomin sorti en mars 2020 est un Blue Badge Guide de Londres, Tim Hudson !).<\/p>\n

Le lendemain de son arriv\u00e9e, de Gaulle se rendit \u00e0 Broadcasting House, le si\u00e8ge de la BBC, pour enregistrer son premier grand discours, l\u2019Appel du 18 juin, dans lequel il exhorta les Fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 poursuivre le combat, geste de d\u00e9fiance envers l\u2019armistice qui se n\u00e9gociait avec le r\u00e9gime de P\u00e9tain. Au cours des trois ann\u00e9es suivantes, de Gaulle, d\u00e9sormais chef de la France Libre, v\u00e9cut et travailla essentiellement \u00e0 Londres. Beaucoup de lieux, d\u2019\u00e9difices et de quartiers londoniens portent encore la m\u00e9moire de Charles de Gaulle, et vous pouvez marcher sur ses pas en compagnie d\u2019un de nos Blue Badge Guides<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Broadcasting Broadcasting House, Langham Place. Cr\u00e9dit photo \u00a9 Keriluamox via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Le premier QG temporaire de la France Libre se trouvait dans St Stephen\u2019s House sur le Victoria Embankment, tout pr\u00e8s du Parlement (aujourd\u2019hui connu sous le nom de Norman Shaw South, qui fait partie des locaux parlementaires). Mais d\u00e8s juillet 1940, la France Libre d\u00e9m\u00e9nagea \u00e0 l\u2019adresse qui restera son centre d\u2019op\u00e9rations jusqu\u2019en1944 : le 4 Carlton Gardens, un \u00e9difice construit en 1923-4 dans un style n\u00e9o-classique.<\/p>\n

\"Charles Plaque devant le 4 Carlton Gardens. Cr\u00e9dit photo \u00a9 Spudgun67 via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Au 4 Carlton Gardens il y a deux plaques comm\u00e9moratives : l\u2019une est une plaque bleue et ronde sign\u00e9e English Heritage et inaugur\u00e9e en 1984, qui affirme que c\u2019est ici que de Gaulle a \u00e9tabli le Quartier-G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la France Libre en 1940. L\u2019autre, de forme rectangulaire, fut pos\u00e9e en 1947 et porte les paroles galvanisantes, en anglais et en fran\u00e7ais, de l\u2019Appel du 18 juin. Juste en face du 4 Carlton Gardens se dresse la statue du G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle, sculpt\u00e9e par Angela Conner et inaugur\u00e9e en 1993, qui le repr\u00e9sente en uniforme de g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de brigade, le rang qu\u2019il portait en 1940.<\/p>\n

\"Statue Statue de Charles de Gaulle \u00e0 Carlton Gardens. Cr\u00e9dit photo \u00a9 Giogo via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Lors de ses premiers jours \u00e0 Londres, de Gaulle logeait au Rubens Hotel, sur Buckingham Palace Road. C\u2019est l\u00e0, le 20 juin, que sa famille le rejoignit : sa femme Yvonne, leurs enfants Philippe, \u00c9lisabeth et Anne la benjamine. Eux aussi avaient fait un voyage p\u00e9rilleux, de Brest \u00e0 Plymouth en bateau. Selon Philippe de Gaulle, les retrouvailles \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4tel Rubens furent une des rares occasions o\u00f9 les enfants de Gaulle virent leurs parents s\u2019embrasser.<\/p>\n

Peu apr\u00e8s, la famille de Gaulle s\u2019installa dans la grande banlieue sud-est, sur Birchwood Road, \u00e0 Petts Wood, d\u2019o\u00f9 de Gaulle se rendait chaque jour \u00e0 Carlton Gardens. Mais le n\u0153ud ferroviaire de Chislehurst tout proche pr\u00e9sentait une cible importante pour la Luftwaffe, et les fr\u00e9quentes explosions \u00e9taient une source d\u2019inqui\u00e9tude terrible pour la petite Anne de Gaulle, atteinte d\u2019une trisomie 21.<\/p>\n

Aussi Yvonne et les enfants d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e8rent dans le comt\u00e9 du Shropshire, \u00e0 environ 300 kms de Londres, mais de Gaulle lui-m\u00eame devait rester \u00e0 Londres et avait trop rarement l\u2019occasion de les voir. Un autre d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement en septembre 1941 permit \u00e0 la famille de s\u2019installer dans le village de Little Gaddesden, dans l\u2019ouest du Hertfordshire: d\u00e9sormais, de Gaulle pouvait passer ses weekends avec sa femme et ses enfants. En semaine, il logeait au Connaught Hotel.<\/p>\n

Finalement, en septembre 1942, les de Gaulle s\u2019install\u00e8rent ensemble \u00e0 une adresse londonienne, au 99 Frognal, dans le quartier de Hampstead. Catholique fervent, de Gaulle allait chaque dimanche \u00e0 la messe \u00e0 St Mary\u2019s, l\u2019\u00e9glise catholique de Hampstead, fond\u00e9e au dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle pour les \u00e9migr\u00e9s catholiques fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n

\"St. St. Mary’s Hampstead, London. Photo cr\u00e9dit: \u00a9 Gareth E. Kegg via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Cela fait des si\u00e8cles que Londres accueille des \u00e9migr\u00e9s fran\u00e7ais ; dans le quartier de Soho, en particulier, il y avait depuis l\u2019\u00e9poque de Louis XIV une florissante communaut\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise, qui s\u2019y sentait chez soi. Il y avait des bars, des restaurants, des clubs fran\u00e7ais. C\u2019est l\u00e0 que souvent les gens de la France Libre se retrouvaient pendant la guerre. L\u2019ancien pub du York Minster dans Dean Street a \u00e9t\u00e9 rebaptis\u00e9 \u00ab The French House \u00bb – \u00ab La Maison Fran\u00e7aise \u00bb en leur honneur, et l\u2019on y retrouve leur m\u00e9moire.<\/p>\n

\"The The French House pub in the Soho area of London. Photo cr\u00e9dit: \u00a9 Ewan Munro via Wikimedia Commons.<\/a> <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Mais De Gaulle se rendait rarement \u00e0 Soho. Il d\u00e9jeunait d\u2019habitude au Connaught, ou dans un des gentlemen\u2019s clubs de Pall Mall, ou dans un des c\u00e9l\u00e8bres restaurants fran\u00e7ais de Londres, par exemple le Coq d\u2019Or, Stratton Street et le Savoy, au bord de la Tamise. Il avait compris que les d\u00e9jeuners de travail jouaient un r\u00f4le tr\u00e8s important dans l\u2019Establishment politique et militaire de Grande Bretagne. Et de Gaulle y engageait (en fran\u00e7ais, \u00e9videmment) des discussions importantes sur la conduite de la guerre, sur l\u2019avenir de la France et de l\u2019Europe.<\/p>\n

\"The The Connaught Hotel in London. Cr\u00e9dit photo: \u00a9 Soham Banerjee via Wikimedia Common<\/a>s. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Quand il faisait beau temps, de Gaulle faisait \u00e0 pied le trajet de Carlton Gardens jusqu\u2019au Connaught pour y prendre son d\u00e9jeuner. Beaucoup des passants reconnaissaient ce personnage particuli\u00e8rement grand, en uniforme d\u2019officier fran\u00e7ais, qui parcourait St James et Berkeley Square. Aujourd\u2019hui nous en savons beaucoup plus sur les rapports difficiles entre le G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle et le gouvernement britannique, mais pendant la guerre les Londoniens ordinaires n\u2019en savaient rien, et les passants le saluaient et l\u2019applaudissaient.<\/p>\n

En plus du 10 Downing Street et Broadcasting House, plusieurs \u00e9difices et endroits de Londres ont un lien avec Charles de Gaulle : l\u2019Albert Hall, par exemple, o\u00f9 il assistait \u00e0 des rassemblements de la France Libre et pronon\u00e7ait des discours qui furent enregistr\u00e9s par la BBC et diffus\u00e9s dans l\u2019\u00e9mission quotidienne \u00ab les Fran\u00e7ais parlent aux Fran\u00e7ais \u00bb ; et le Palais de Westminster, o\u00f9, en 1941, il pronon\u00e7a un discours – en anglais \u2013 devant les membres des Lords et des Communes. Il y a aussi des lieux moins bien connus, par exemple la statue du Mar\u00e9chal Foch \u00e0 Grosvenor Gardens : tous les 14 juillet de la guerre, les Forces Fran\u00e7aises Libres d\u00e9filaient devant la statue et de Gaulle y d\u00e9posait une gerbe \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de l\u2019ancien commandant en chef.<\/p>\n

\"Equestrian Statue \u00e9questre de Ferdinand Foch, Lower Grosvenor Gardens. Cr\u00e9dit photo: \u00a9 Carcharoth via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

De Gaulle revint \u00e0 Londres en avril 1960 pour une visite officielle, cette fois en qualit\u00e9 de Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique Fran\u00e7aise. La visite se d\u00e9roula \u00e0 un moment difficile : la crise en Alg\u00e9rie \u00e9tait \u00e0 son comble. Quant au Royaume Uni, le gouvernement de Harold Macmillan songeait \u00e0 faire une demande d\u2019adh\u00e9sion \u00e0 la Communaut\u00e9 \u00c9conomique Europ\u00e9enne. Arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 Victoria Station, de Gaulle accompagna la Reine en landau \u00e0 Buckingham Palace. Son s\u00e9jour \u00e0 Londres dura quatre jours pendant lesquels il suivit un programme bien rempli. Il assista \u00e0 une soir\u00e9e gala de ballet, \u00e0 Covent Garden, il rencontra des anciens combattants britanniques \u00e0 l\u2019H\u00f4pital Royal de Chelsea, il s\u2019adressa encore une fois au Parlement, mais cette fois-ci \u00e0 Westminster Hall, et son discours fut prononc\u00e9 en fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n

\"Horse Horse Guards Parade in London. Cr\u00e9dit photo:: \u00a9 Romainbehar via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Le point culminant de sa visite fut la Rel\u00e8ve de la Garde \u00e0 Horse Guards. De Gaulle est le seul chef d\u2019\u00e9tat \u00e9tranger dans l\u2019histoire \u00e0 avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 invit\u00e9 \u00e0 passer en revue la Household Division en entier. Encore une fois, de Gaulle traversa le Mall en landau, en compagnie du Prince Philip. De Gaulle portait l\u2019uniforme de g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de brigade. Philip, en tant de membre de la Famille Royale, a le droit de porter des uniformes de tout rang, mais ce jour-l\u00e0, par respect pour son visiteur, il portait, lui aussi, l\u2019uniforme de brigadier. Au moment o\u00f9 le landau passa devant la vol\u00e9e de marches qui montent vers Carlton Gardens, de Gaulle leva la main \u00e0 son k\u00e9pi en salut solennel \u00e0 ses vieux camarades de la France Libre.<\/p>\n

Il y a donc beaucoup de fa\u00e7ons d\u2019explorer Londres sur les grands pas de Charles de Gaulle, mais il est plus int\u00e9ressant de le faire avec un(e) guide Blue Badge londonien(ne) \u2013 faire revivre le pass\u00e9\u2026 c\u2019est notre m\u00e9tier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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