<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishDe Gaulle, kwa hisia yake ya kipekee ya historia, alichukua hatua muhimu kuelekea kujenga tena kujiamini kitaifa kwa kusisitiza kwamba vikosi vya silaha vya Ufaransa vita kando ya Marekani na Uingereza kwa ajili ya ukombozi wa nchi, lakini, juu ya yote, kwamba jeshi la Ufaransa kuwa wa kwanza kuingia Paris yenyewe.  <response>: De Gaulle, with his canny sense of history, took an important step toward rebuilding national self-confidence by insisting that French armed forces fight side by side with the Americans and British for the liberation of the country, but, above all, that the French army be the first to enter Paris itself. 