Word: gaullismes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infrequent occasions when newscasters note that Defferre has delivered a speech, they studiously overlook his critiques of Gaullism. This is especially important since polls show that Defferre, mayor of Marseille, is still unknown to 42% of the nation's populace. Firing off an acid letter to the President, Defferre asked whether his exposure problem might be "because I am a candidate for the presidency." Of course De Gaulle did not reply. Instead, his aides made the blackout official by decreeing that presidential candidates would be allowed only two hours each of radio and TV time, and then only during...
...grandeur that is Gaullism has always defied simple explanation, for it often seems that Charles de Gaulle, like the Cabots, speaks only to God. In a witty new book, The Gaullists-Ritual and Directory, French Journalist Pierre Viansson-Ponté, chief political correspondent for prestigious Le Monde, pokes skillfully at the inner Gaullist mysteries. The movement, Viansson-Ponté concludes, "consists neither of a doctrine nor of an organization, but simply of an experience lived through...
What is remarkable about all this, says Viansson-Ponte, is that although De Gaulle has absolute power, he does not abuse it. That may help to explain the loyalty of his followers, bound together only by their participation in at least two of Gaullism's three great adventures: the Free French Resistance; De Gaulle's postwar Rassemblement du Peuple Franfais (R.P.F.) and its abortive bid for political power; and the formation of the Fifth Republic...
Crossing the Desert. Viansson-Ponté gives each Gaullist a Guide Michelin sort of rating denoting past services to Gaullism and present standing in relation to the general. A Cross of Lorraine indicates Free France, a submachine gun the Resistance, and a star the Compagnon de la Liberation, the elite order of Free France and Resistance fighters. A small outhouse (cabinet in French) means membership in De Gaulle's personal office staff, a mask means espionage work during World War II. A motorcyclist symbolizes trips to Colombey to see the general, and a hand grenade membership in the R.P.F...
...translator at the school, the mother of six children, who was picked up at her 15-room 18th century château in a town south of Lyon. The Ecole Militaire, where Napoleon learned to soldier, is the top academy for the French military, and a hotbed of anti-Gaullism among the veterans of Algeria who think he let them down...