The French President does not have to be Christian (or any faith). In fact, that would be contrary to the principles of French constitution if you had to be of a particular faith to be elected or recruited as a civil servant.
Because General Washington (First President) had ambused the city of YorkTown by land and the French Navy had cut them off by sea so General of the Britsh had no choose.
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General Lafayette.
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Lexington, Lafayette (French general)
He was an officer in the British army during the French and Indian war, he was a general and Commander-in-cheif of the USA during the Revolutionary War, a founding father, and the President of the US from 1789-1797.
There are twelve avenues radiating from the Arc. - Champs-Elysées, from Greek mythology (the Elysian Fields), the final resting places of the souls of heroes and of the virtuous. - Marceau: general of the French revolutionary wars, killed 1796; - Hoche: general of the French revolutionary wars, killed 1797; - Kléber: general of the French revolutionary wars, killed 1800; - Carnot: mathematician, general of the French revolutionary wars, died 1823; - la Grande Armée: the army of Napoleon; - Iéna (1086), Friedland (1807), Wagram (1809), three of Napoleon victories; - Victor Hugo: novelist, poet, playwright, author of Les Miserables and the hunchback of Notre Dame - Mac Mahon, general, Marshal, and third president of the French Republic in the 1870s - Foch, general and Marshal, chief commander of allied troops on the western front in WWI.
Paris/France and he was a French General in the American Revolutionary Army!
It was named after the French general who helped George Washington in the Revolutionary War.
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, was a General in the American Revolutionary War (in the American Continental Army) and later a General in the French Revolution.
One of the facts about the De Gaul constitution for the fifth French republic is that the President is elected after every 5 terms.