Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national change of mind, an administration change of course, a national admission of an unwitting misapplication of our corporate resources will not with certainty lead to peace at home or abroad. The international enhancement of the prestige of France through the withdrawal from what Frenchmen for generations had regarded as an integral part of metropolitan France within the French Empire cannot serve us as a sure model, because de Gaulle's act was a fundamental change in policy with respect to a partly integrated region whose population used also the language of France...