Charles de Gaulle's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts

In the record

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Germany during the Nazi era and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. Following the 1958 Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement at the request of President René Coty, who appointed him Prime Minister. Charles de Gaulle was born November 22, 1890. The birth-card coordinate for November 22 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of Charles de Gaulle's 1958 TIME Person of the Year — Charles de Gaulle.

TIME Person of the Year record

• Charles de Gaulle — 1958 TIME Person of the Year — Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle's 1958 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “Charles de Gaulle” (Charles de Gaulle is the sole named human listed for that year). Charles de Gaulle is listed as the sole named human for each TIME Person of the Year year in this pack. The harvested English Wikipedia title for Charles de Gaulle matches the list name. Charles de Gaulle is Wikidata Q2042. Honor years kept for Charles de Gaulle: 1958. Choice labels kept: 1958 Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle's Wikipedia infobox day is 1890-11-22; Wikidata P569 is 1890-11-22 (match). TIME vault (https://time.com/vault/) is context for Charles de Gaulle's honor and is not a date source. November 22 maps to J♥ for Charles de Gaulle. Wikidata P570 lists November 9, 1970 (1970-11-09) as a public death date for Charles de Gaulle. The Wikipedia REST summary used for Charles de Gaulle is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle. No childhood, private address, or invented birthday is added for Charles de Gaulle.

The Jack of Hearts coordinate

Charles de Gaulle was born November 22, 1890 (1890-11-22). Month 11 and day 22 give solar value 11, which is the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1890 is unused, so Charles de Gaulle's 1890 birth year does not move the card. The Jack of Hearts does not predict a TIME Person of the Year selection and is not a verdict on Charles de Gaulle. Quoted system copy for the Jack of Hearts, not a biography of Charles de Gaulle: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary. You bring fresh perspective, inspiration, and youthful possibility to love. You see what a relationship could become and carry the spark that reawakens feeling. At your best, you innovate connection with genuine authenticity. Harvested gifts listed for the Jack of Hearts: Bringing fresh perspective and inspiration to connection; Youthful openness and emotional creativity; Innovating how relationships can work; Reawakening feeling and possibility in others. Harvested life-direction line for the Jack of Hearts: Your curriculum is learning that real people are better than your fantasies of them. You're learning to grow up into love instead of dreaming about it.

Live Jack of Hearts meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Germany during the Nazi era and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. Following the 1958 Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement at the request of President René Coty, who appointed him Prime Minister. He commissioned a new constitution which was approved by voters in a referendum, establishing the Fifth Republic. He was subsequently elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969.

Charles de Gaulle in the public record

Following the 1958 Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement at the request of President René Coty, who appointed him Prime Minister. He commissioned a new constitution which was approved by voters in a referendum, establishing the Fifth Republic. He was subsequently elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. Born in Lille, he was a decorated officer of World War I, wounded several times and taken prisoner of war by Germany. During the interwar period, he advocated mobile armoured divisions. During the German invasion of May 1940, he led an armoured division that counterattacked the invaders; he was then appointed Undersecretary for War. Refusing to accept his government's armistice with Germany, de Gaulle fled to England and exhorted the French to continue the fight in his Appeal of 18 June. He led the Free French Forces and later headed the French National Liberation Committee and emerged as the undisputed leader of Free France.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Charles de Gaulle (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Charles de Gaulle, and not a forecast of the cover of Time.

Bringing fresh perspective and inspiration to connection

Following the 1958 Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement at the request of President René Coty, who appointed him Prime Minister.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: minister.

Also on the record

1. He became head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic in June 1944, the interim government of France following its liberation.
2. As early as 1944, de Gaulle introduced a dirigiste economic policy, which included substantial state-directed control over a capitalist economy, which was followed by 30 years of unprecedented growth, known as the Trente Glorieuses.
3. He resigned in 1946, but continued to be politically active as founder of the Rally of the French People.
4. He retired in the early 1950s and wrote his War Memoirs, which quickly became a staple of modern French literature.

Other TIME Person of the Year people with this card

• Coleen Rowley — 2002 TIME Person of the Year — The Whistleblowers (shared)
• Sherron Watkins — 2002 TIME Person of the Year — The Whistleblowers (shared)

FAQ

What is Charles de Gaulle's birth card?

The Jack of Hearts. November 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Charles de Gaulle's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a TIME Person of the Year?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast magazine covers, character, or fate.

Where do Charles de Gaulle's dates and TIME Person of the Year credits come from?

Birth date 1890-11-22 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Charles de Gaulle, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia TIME Person of the Year list. Duals are split per named human. Abstractions, machines, and groups-as-concepts are omitted. The honor line is 1958 TIME Person of the Year — Charles de Gaulle. TIME vault is context only and is not used as a date source. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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