général de Gaulle

Few comic characters carry the weight of living history quite like général de Gaulle, who stepped onto the page in 1944 — the very year of liberation — in Marijac's Coq Hardi, published by Éditions du M.L.N. at the height of the Golden Age. Emerging from the crucible of wartime France, this is a rare instance of a real historical figure rendered in sequential art while the events he embodied were still unfolding. His presence across titles spanning more than seven decades — from Coq Hardi to La Patrouille des Libellules to La BD est Charlie — speaks to an enduring cultural resonance that few comic figures, fictional or otherwise, can claim.