Yvonne DE GAULLE and the Anne de Gaulle Foundation.

Yvonne DE GAULLE (1900.1979)

Signed autograph letter.

Two pages in-4°. Slnd (probably early 50s).

Moving letter from Yvonne de Gaulle, sensitive to the help provided to young disabled girls.

“Madam, I am sorry not to be able to help you with your little girl, but the Anne de Gaulle Foundation only receives young girls aged at least 14 , and domiciled in Seine or Seine et Oise. You could contact 1°: Franciscan Sisters in Rolleville, Seine Inférieure. 2°: Sisters of the Presentation 23 rue de Paris, Rozay en Brie, Seine et Marne. If rehabilitation did not succeed, the best would be the Sisters of the Good Savior in Caen. Please accept, Madam, my best and most sympathetic sentiments. Y. de Gaulle. »

The Anne-de-Gaulle Foundation was founded in 1945 on the initiative of General de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne in order to provide assistance to young mentally disabled women without resources. Recognized as being of public utility on May 30, 1945, the foundation was named on August 13, 1948 in honor of Anne de Gaulle (1928.1948), the daughter of Charles and Yvonne de Gaulle. The foundation is located in the Château de Vert-Cœur, in Milon-la-Chapelle in an area of ​​fifteen hectares, and takes care of around forty residents. Yvonne de Gaulle assumed the responsibility of President of the Foundation from 1945 until her death on November 8, 1979.

This letter should be placed before 1957. In fact, “the Anne de Gaulle foundation only receives young girls aged at least 14 ”… the sick child concerned here, Nadia Tirel was born in 1943. We can therefore place this mail between 1945 (creation of the Foundation) and 1957. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Gisèle Tirel, in Touques, mother of Nadia Tirel (1943.1999).