Henri Charles Alexandre de Gaulle (22 November 1848 – 3 May 1932) was a French civil servant and later a schoolteacher.

He was the father of Charles de Gaulle, a general of the French army and President of France.

His mother was Joséphine Marie Anne (Maillot) de Gaulle.

A civil servant in the interior ministry for fifteen years, in 1884 he resigned his post to protest against the anti-clerical policies of the Third Republic.

On 2 August 1886 he married his second cousin, Jeanne Maillot (28 April 1860, Lille – 16 July 1940, Sainte-Addresse), with whom he had a daughter and four sons:[1] He retired with his wife to Sainte-Adresse, close to Le Havre, at the home of their daughter Marie-Agnès Cailliau.