“I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.”

— Charles de Gaulle

Je ne vais pas mal. Mais rassurez-vous, un jour, je ne manquerai pas de mourir.
Press conference, February 1965, denying rumours that he secretly had a terminal disease
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2

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eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890–1970

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