CHARLES DE GAULLE lives in stone houses. In cosmopolitan Paris, home is the buff-colored Elysée Palace, an elaborate 18th century pleasure dome that belonged to Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. In rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, home is a 14-room château of grey limestone surrounded by formal gardens and groves of elm and pine. In both, le grand Charles tries to keep life as simple and uncomplicated as possible.
Silent Phones. Mornings in Paris, De Gaulle is awakened at 7 by his shy, grey-eyed wife Yvonne, for he will permit neither clocks nor radio in his bedroom. After a breakfast of black...
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