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

Charles de Gaulle (1890.1970)

Signed letter to Yvonne Salmon.

One page in quarto on paper with his letterhead.

Algiers. December 1 ^, 1943.

« I congratulate you and the Management Board on the formation of the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française. »

From the Levant, General de Gaulle approves and welcomes the establishment of the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française.

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“Dear Miss Salmon, Thank you for your letter of November 26th. I congratulate you and the Board of Directors on the formation of the Algerian Committee of the Alliance Française. You know the importance the Committee attaches to the revival and activity of the Alliance Française. Please do not hesitate to contact me whenever necessary to support your work. With respectful regards, C. de Gaulle.”

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We are attaching a carbon copy of Y. Salmon's letter originally addressed to the General on November 26, 1943:

"My General, On behalf of the Board of Directors, I have the honor to announce the formation of the Algerian Committee of the ALLIANCE FRANCAISE. The first General Assembly took place on Monday; the Executive Council was appointed and the statutes were adopted; next Monday the election of the Bureau will take place and on December 1st ^the Board of Directors will organize an inter-allied 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 for Kabylia to see what the Alliance can do for the Indigenous people. The Algerians have provided us with effective, generous, and intelligent assistance; eager to immediately follow the path you indicated, they want to establish an active and stable committee that will form a solid base for the Alliance in North Africa during the liberation.

Mr. Charles Brunel has become a member of the Board of Directors, and we have the impression that the Algerians are pleased that we are associating one of their own with the work of the Central Council; the latter gains a member whose administrative qualities, combined with high intellectual and moral character, will be most useful to it. Please accept, General, the assurance of my most devoted sentiments. »

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Yvonne Salmon (1885-1965) offered her services to General de Gaulle in the aftermath of the Appeal of June 18th. An active propagandist for Free France through the Alliance Française, she gave countless lectures and published in 1943, in London, the first biography of the leader of Free France entitled "General de Gaulle"