Word: augustusburg
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Pourquoi? Speaking without notes, mostly in grammatically flawless, if unmistakably Gaullist German. De Gaulle returned repeatedly to the thematic words: "Deutsch-Franzosische Freund-schaft" (Franco-German friendship). The most explicit and concentrated statement of De Gaulle's plans for Europe was delivered at a state banquet at the Augustusburg Castle in Briihl-ironically, once the residence in exile of Louis XIV's Cardinal Mazarin, an early evangelist of France's longstanding policy of keeping Germany weak and divided. "Every word in the speech is worthy of exegetical study, like a Biblical text," exclaimed one of Adenauer...
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