The founder of the France's Fifth Republic, General Charles de Gaulle, is by far the most important historical person for Frenchmen, according to results of a poll announced Saturday by the IFOP Institute. The poll, to be published Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche, showed that with 39 per cent of Frenchmen plumping for World War II resistance fighter against the Nazis, de Gaulle was far ahead of the second place personality, Napoleon Bonaparte, at 18 per cent. Charlemagne, the founder of the French (as well as German) state, followed, as did socialist leader Jean Jaures (10 per cent), Joan of Arc (6 per cent) and "The Sun King" Louis XIV with 5 per cent.
