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Gary plonge surtout dans ses souvenirs pour restituer au plus près la personnalité du Général. Il se souvient de ce que racontait son frère aîné, Xavier de Gaulle, alors consul général à Genève, lorsqu’il était invité à la table de l’ambassadeur de France à Berne, Henri Hoppenot. Il décrivait la construction du personnage Charles de Gaulle qui, dès
... See moreKerwin Spire • Monsieur Romain Gary. Consul général de France - 1919 Outpost Drive - Los Angeles 28, California (French Edition)
“You’ve studied being head of a country for fifty years,” JFK said to him. “Have you found out anything I should know?” De Gaulle advised him to hear the advice of others but to decide matters for himself and live by his own counsel.
For de Gaulle, politics was not the art of the possible but the art of the willed.
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Tu seras plus qu’un roi, tu seras plus qu’un Dieu Car tu seras la France, O Général Revanche!*
Frederick Brown • For the Soul of France
That symbolic union of the church and the republic, which had eluded France since 1789, was a vital component of the Gaullist appeal.