Word: chateaubriand
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Furet directed the prestigious Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales from 1977-85. A professor at the University of Chicago, Furet received the Grand Prix de la Bibliotheque Nationale in 1989, as well as the 1995 Chateaubriand Prize...
...undercurrent of these quarrels is a yearning for a new national myth, a sense of grandeur and destiny. As author Barzini points out, it was Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, the great Romantic writer, who said of his compatriots, "They must be led by dreams." De Gaulle, after founding the Fifth Republic in 1958 and establishing a presidential form of government verging on monarchy, set France apart from NATO, apart from "the Anglo-Saxons" -- conveniently lumping in superpower America with France's ancient enemy, England -- and even, in important ways, apart from Europe...