De Gaulle: Joan of Arc and Prima Donna

One of the more contentious relationships of World War II was that between French Gen. Charles de Gaulle on one side and President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the other. Indeed, scorn for de Gaulle was so deep at one point that Roosevelt and Churchill considered a military occupation of France at warâ??s end - pending free elections - rather than putting the country into the hands of de Gaulle.