01-08-2004, 08:00 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
January 8th
1959 ~ Charles de Gaulle becomes first President of the new Fifth Republic of France during a ceremony at the Elysée Palace. Retiring president, M. René Coty, welcomed the new president saying: "The first among Frenchmen is now the first in France."
__________________
Eudaimonia
|