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About the "refusal" of the title of Marshal of France by Charles de Gaulle, I think there isn't a refusal, because the title was NEVER properly offered to De Gaulle.

De Gaulle killed the demarches about the matter before any positive action be taked, as told by Jean Lacouture in "De Gaulle 2 - The Ruler, 1945-1970", pg.128:

"The situation of Charles de Gaulle, mythically a general to all eternity, but legally a retired colonel, was odd enough to be posing the government certain problems, including some of a bureaucratic type. It was Edmond Michelet, the most faithful of all his followers, who was “his minister” in charge of the armed forces. He asked de Gaulle how they were to settle the General’s “situation in the army”, a situation that, according to the minister, “President Gouin naturally wants to be as high as possible”. Marshal of France, a title so closely associated with Pétain, and his inferiors? Four days later, Michelet received one of the most implacable, if stinging, letters ever written by the General.

My dear Minister, ... Since 18 June 1940 - the date on which I gave up my responsibilities and set out in a rather unusual direction - the events that have taken place have been of such a nature and of such a dimension that it would be impossible to “regularize” a situation absolutely without precedent. Indeed, there has been no need whatever to change anything in that situation during the five years, seven months and three days of a very great trial. Any “administrative solution” that one might try to apply to it today would, therefore, take on a strange, even ridiculous character. The only course that measures up to the situation is to leave things as they are. One day, death will take it upon itself to smooth over the difficulty, if there still is one."

So, de Gaulle never "refused" the title of Marshal of France, only prevented the possibility of that title be given to him.