Antonin Baudry

I certainly hope it is.

So what we saw indeed was the first half of Antonin Baudry's two-part French epic covering de Gaulle from the collapse of France in 1940 through the emergence of Free France and into the North African campaign.

Simon Abkariam is the reason it works and he plays.

And it's extraordinary.

And during the war, of course, he's a colonel, uh, when the war begins, and he's kind of promoted on the fly as he, um, is, uh, facing the, um, the Wehrmacht in May of 1940.

And so by the time he, you know, moves to London and, uh, if any of you have seen the, the recent film by, uh, Antonin Baudry, uh, it's very well portrayed in there.

This move to London, essentially, it, it comes after he- he's already had a very long and distinguished military career.

And, and so I like to think of de Gaulle as a kind of, in the words of Emily Wilson, "A complicated man." Right? He's like Odysseus.