Charles de Gaulle greets the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française.

Charles de GAULLE (1890.1970)

Letter signed to Yvonne Salmon.

One page in-4° on paper with its letterhead.

Algiers. 1 ^, 1943.

« I congratulate you, as well as the Management Council, for the formation of the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française. »

Since the Levant, General de Gaulle has approved and welcomed the constitution of the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française.

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"Dear Mademoiselle Salmon, I thank you for your letter of November 26 and I congratulate you, as well as the Management Council, for the formation of the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française. You know the importance that the committee attaches to the Renaissance and the activity of the Alliance Française. Do not miss to call me whenever it is necessary to support your work. Believe, dear Mademoiselle Salmon, to my respectful tributes. C. de Gaulle. »»

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We join the carbon copy of the letter of Y. Salmon initially addressed to the general on November 26, 1943:

“My general, on behalf of the Management Council, I have the honor to announce the training of the Algerian Committee of the French Alliance. The first general meeting took place on Monday; The Executive Council was appointed and the statutes voted; Next Monday will be the election of the office and on December 1st ^the management board will organize an interallied tea to give the president of the Algerian committee, Mr. Marcel Simian, I believe, the opportunity to receive our allies.

In the first days of December I will leave in Kabylia to see what the alliance can do for the natives. The Algerians brought us effective, generous and intelligent help; Eager to immediately follow the path you had indicated to them, they want to constitute an active and stable committee which will form in North Africa a solid point of support for the alliance during the Liberation.

Mr. Charles BRUNEL becomes a member of the Management Council, and we have the impression that the Algerians are affected that we associate one of theirs at the work of the Central Council; The latter wins a member there whose qualities of administrator joined to a high intellectual and moral value will be most useful to him. Please accept, my general, the assurance of my very dedicated feelings. »

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Yvonne Salmon (1885-1965) offered her services to General de Gaulle the day after the appeal of June 18. An active propagandist for Free France through the Alliance Française, she gave countless conferences and published in 1943, in London, the first biography of the leader of Free France entitled “General de Gaulle”