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...King tendency to equate himself with France's destiny led to his undoing. After the student and worker protests of May 1968, he demanded a referendum to confirm his mandate. He lost, resigned the presidency and retired to his home in the Lorraine village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. De Gaulle died less than two years later, at 79, while playing solitaire...
...World War II and in 1943 courageously accompanied him to Algiers. Preferring to live in the shadow of her husband, she avoided publicity and spent much of the past decade gardening and doing charitable work in the quiet seclusion of La Boisserie, the family's country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, north of Dijon...
...incarnation of France, flawless. But he was addicted to at least one small sin, according to former British Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson. During a TV interview, Wilson recalled a visit with the French President back in the 1960s. When De Gaulle began talking about his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Wilson asked him what he did there during the quiet evenings. "I knew he read westerns," said Wilson, "but in addition to that, he said he played patience [soli-taire]. I asked him if he cheated if it wasn't turning out." De Gaulle...
...placate the Gaullists, Giscard quickly denounced Stehlin for making public his appraisal of the fighters' merits and went out of his way to visit Colombey-les-deux-Eglises to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of le grand Charles. Clearly, Giscard is gambling that his traditional fiscal and credit program can halt inflation and at the same time preserve social peace, thereby allowing him more time to bring about the grand reforms-notably narrowing the income gaps between the rich and the poor-that he promised in his campaign. For the moment, Giscard has a seemingly solid majority...
When Constantine Caramanlis flew off to exile in Paris in 1963 after a stinging defeat at the polls, his departure from Greek politics reminded many of Charles de Gaulle's huffy retreat to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises after the French liberation. As one of his parting shots, the former Greek Premier told an audience, with more than a touch of Gaullist hubris: "The true political leader does not need the people. The people need the true political leader...