Five decades on, Charles De Gaulle has finally died. Or has he? The general and French Resistance hero wrote the rules of the presidential election set to conclude in a run-off between the incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen on April 24.  The Constitution of the Fifth French Republic was written in 1958 to allow the second coming of De Gaulle as the saviour of a country beset by a decade of post-war political instability. He then amended it in 1962 to add the current direct presidential election in a two-round majority vote. The same voting…

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