GAULLE Charles de L.A.S., 15 December 1939, to Paul Reynaud; 1 1/2 pages in-4. Congratulations from Charles de Gaulle to Paul Reynaud. "I measure and salute your magnificent successes. No doubt they are worthwhile in the particular field in which you have achieved them. But, in addition, they have the effect of bringing closer to the pinnacle of power a statesman par excellence, worthy and capable of leading this war, the most serious in our history. Minor cracks and creases. Bibliography: L. N. C., vol. 1, p. 908.