I'm very excited for the National French rework, I think it's long overdue and will be a lot of fun. However, one thing that really stood out to me as off was the role of Charles de Gaulle as an Integralist

In what has been publicly posted of the rework, de Gaulle (like OTL) is a young rising star in the French military who is a proponent of armored and maneuver warfare. Unlike OTL, de Gaulle is also prominent Integralist,with strong connections within the Action Francaise political party/movement

Charles de Gaulle is a very interesting historical figure, and one who doesn't fall neatly into any of the ideological boxes that tend to reoccur across global politics. He's also exceedingly and uniquely French. But one thing that I think is clear from looking at his personality, politics, and ideology is that he is not a French Integralist. De Gaulle has a few superficially similar views to Action Francaise, but looking past those surface similarities reveals that he was pretty diametrically opposed

First, let's look at the similarities. De Gaulle grew up in a deeply catholic family who were subscribers to Action Francaise, the newspaper that gave the name to the political party/movement. He spent his career in the Army, an institution that, while not monolithically supportive of monarchism as is sometimes portrayed, nonetheless had strong undercurrents of monarchism. He was a After WW2, de Gaulle met with the Orleanist pretender to the French throne multiple times. Historians are divided as to whether de Gaulle ever seriously considered restoring the monarchy, but it was at least not out of the question that he thought about doing so

So what's the problem? De Gaulle grew up reading integralist writers, was at least monarchically curious, why wouldn't he be an integralist in KR? A few reasons

1. De Gaulle and the Integralists had very different views of monarchy: de Gaulle was monarchically curious yes, but for very different reasons than the Integralists. De Gaulle saw monarchy as a means to the end of providing a strong executive, a powerful centralizing force that could end the endless squabbling and instability of parliamentary government in the 3rd and 4th Republics. When he came to power in 1958, he implemented a strong President instead of a monarchy to establish the same position. He did not subscribe to the Integralist rejection of the enlightenment or of the fundamental concept of republicanism, he did not want to restore the imagined version of the Ancien Regime that Maurras an others did
2. De Gaulle was a Dreyfusard: that the trial of a junior officer was perhaps the defining political moment in the entirety of the 3rd Republic is something extremely French, but is nonetheless true. Very atypically for conservative catholics who read Action Francaise, the de Gaulle family were Dreyfusards - meaning that they supported the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army who was framed for treason. The Dreyfus Affair deeply divided France, and those who wanted to see Dreyfus convicted (anti-Dreyfusards) tended to be monarchists, antisemites, proto-integralists, and members of the French military. It's notable that despite being steeped in that environment, de Gaulle never became an anti-Dreyfusard, and his Dreyfusard beliefs would have made him stand out in the senior leadership especially of the exile French military
3. De Gaulle was not antisemitic: while de Gaulle was not some bleeding heart liberal or leftist, he also was not an antisemite. Antisemitism was foundational in French integralism, and North Africa had a very large Jewish population. De Gaulle would set himself very far apart from the integralist mainstream by rejecting antisemitism
4. De Gaulle was not an anti-colonialist: One of the more incongruous elements of French integralism was an opposition to colonialism. It would be interesting to see how that belief developed in a world where colonialism was responsible for National France's survival, but that's another matter. But de Gaulle was not an anti-colonialist. In OTL when carrying out his war from exile, de Gaulle did nothing that the Integralists would have approved of to the native population, and in general Free France continued the pre-war 3rd Republic's policies of assimilation and integration of colonies, rather than the Integralist opposite. After WW2 de Gaulle was a strong proponent of further prosecuting the French war in Indochina. He wasn't a dogmatic imperialist, which is why he was willing to accept the decolonization of Algeria when he saw it as inevitable, but neither was he opposed to imperialism in the integralist sense
5. De Gaulle was a firm supporter of centralization: One thing that stands out in any examination of de Gaulle's political philosophy and ideology is the belief in a strong, centralized state with a powerful executive at its head. When in power, de Gaulle centralized political power in the hands of the Presidency (himself). The french economy followed Dirigisme, where the central state played a powerful role in directing the French economy, and where businesses were centralized under state direction. This is diametrically opposed to Integralism's decentralization ethos, where they believe that power and authority should be delegated back to the traditional local and regional authorities, namely the nobility and church

All together, I hope that this makes clear that Charles de Gaulle was not an integralist, and him being an integralist in Kaiserreich also doesn't make sense. But that isn't to say that de Gaulle doesn't fit anywhere into Kaiserreich's politics (though it is a bit curious that de Gaulle is the only leader of the Allied countries of WW2 to be relevant in Kaiserreich)

Instead, de Gaulle falls pretty well into the vague Kaiserreich ideology of "Authoritarian Democrat". And to be more specific, the wing of that ideology occupied by people like Huey Long. Fundamentally conservative nationalists, skeptical of unbridled democracy, but who aren't wedded to traditionally conservative views on the economy, and who aren't outright dismissive of representative democracy

Moreover, this ideology of de Gaulle's is actually already represented by one of the other parties existing in National France - Francois de la Roque's Parti Social Francaise (PSF). In our world, the PSF has been described as a proto-Gaullist party, and encompassed a similar slate of ideas as de Gaulle - conservative and nationalist, not entirely enthused with parlimentary democracy, closely associated with catholicism, but with a strong dose of corporatist economics and catholic social thought regarding social assistance. In the rework, the PSF is considered Social Conservative, which I don't think fits particularly well. IMO, the PSF is archetypical AuthDem in the Kaiserreich ideology system

While de Gaulle doesn't fit the role of "integralist guy in the military" that my interpretation of National France's political crisis portrays him as, there were other very prominent French officers who would happily embrace that role. Most prominent was Maxime Weygand. Weygand was a reactionary, unrepentant monarchist, and open critic of French republicanism. In 1940, he replaced the committed Republican Maurice Gamelin after the disaster in Belgium, and he was instrumental in making sure that the French military did not continue to fight WW2 from exile