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...final television appeal to the nation two days before the balloting, he had repeated an earlier warning to resign at once "if I am disavowed." Shortly after midnight on Monday morning, the voting trend unmistakable, De Gaulle sent a two-sentence communique to Paris from his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. It said: "I am ceasing the exercise of my functions as President of the Republic. This decision takes effect at noon today...
FRANCE last week seemed all too normal. In keeping with his holiday habits, President Charles de Gaulle was at his country home in the quiet village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in eastern France. His Premier, Maurice Couve de Murville, was on the Riviera, trying to extract some warmth from the pale Mediterranean sun. Brigitte Bardot was in the Alps, along with thousands of other French women and men who had trooped to the ski slopes in record numbers. Le tout Paris was caught up in a frenzied swirl of parties and balls that surprised even veteran socialites. "I have...
...words, he "couldn't see clearly." Moments later, a news bulletin flashed across France: a reporter at the Elysee had seen the presidential Citroen bolt out of a seldom-used back gate. Before De Gaulle quit in 1946, he had retreated from Paris to his estate at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises in eastern France. Now some 250,000 demonstrators were parading through Paris in yet another anti-De Gaulle protest. On hearing the bulletin, they began to chant: "Adieu, De Gaulle; adieu, De Gaulle...
...Vigor." Next morning, after spending the night at his hilltop estate in Colombey, De Gaulle returned to Paris in a fighting mood. Emerging from a quickly convened Cabinet meeting at the palace, his Ministers wore the grim visages of men preparing to enter combat. What had been De Gaulle's message? asked newsmen. "Vigor," replied a Minister. "Vigor." Inside, in clipped, angry phrases, De Gaulle was shouting into a tape recorder his speech to the nalion. Within a quarter-hour, his words were relayed throughout France...
CURT PRENDERGAST, TIME'S Paris bureau chief for the past eight years, has been a professional De Gaulle watcher for even longer. He has been covering the general's troubles and triumphs ever since 1953-and from Algeria to Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, the job was never tougher than it was last week...