Survival Skills

Charles de Gaulle, president of France from 1958 to 1969, survived more than 30 assassination attempts from 1944 to 1966. In one instance, de Gaulle’s Citroen was showered with bullets, but witnesses claim that neither de Gaulle nor his wife tried to protect themselves. De Gaulle, on exiting the vehicle, referred to the would-be assassin as a bad shot. His wife said there was no reason to be frightened as she and her husband would have welcomed a chance to die together and avoid the pains of old age.