Charles de Gaulle (b. September 25, 1948, Dijon) is a French politician. He is a grandson of General Charles de Gaulle, and served as a member of the European Parliament, from 1994 to 2004 (as a member of the Movement for France). is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dijon ( , IPA: ) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département and of the Bourgogne région. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP)[1] is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... The Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France), or MPF, is a French conservative, traditionalist and nationalist party, founded on November 20, 1994, with a marked regional implementation in Vendée. ...

From 1999 to 2004, he served as a member of the Front National led by Jean-Marie Le Pen. He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Paris in 2001. The National Front (FN, French: ) is a French Far right, nationalist [1] political party, founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen. ... Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer France) is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party, and a candidate for the French presidency. ... This article is about the capital of France. ...

He is said by most other family members especially Philippe de Gaulle (in several tv shows while promoting his book De Gaulle, mon père) to be "the shame of the family" all the more since he shares the name of his famous grandfather.