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Even so, there were no smiles on the faces of the ministers and aides who emerged from the black Citroëns that filed through the gates of the Elysée Palace on the day after the election. "There was no triumph in Gaullist circles," TIME'S Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers reported from Paris. "Instead there was a universal belief, unspoken but very much there, that an old Gaullist era had ended and a new uncertain period in French politics had begun. The election was a reprieve for the Gaullists, not a mandate...
...Minister Maurice Schumann, 61, and Justice Minister René Pleven, 71, were turned out of once safe districts. Fully 174 of last week's winners are entering the Assembly for the first time; 100 of them are making their first foray into politics. Not one of the new Gaullist Deputies wears the rosette of De Gaulle's Resistance movement...
Since the election, Gaullist officials have been talking in sweeping terms of what Pompidou has called "bold reforms" in social policy. Still, there are no clear indications of what those reforms will be, or who will carry them out. Pompidou is not expected to announce his new government until the first week in April, when the new Assembly convenes. Caretaker Premier Pierre Messmer, 57, the frosty ex-soldier who replaced scandal-wreathed Jacques Chaban-Delmas last year, is a strong candidate for early retirement, even though Pompidou may keep him on for a few months for the sake of appearances...
...Veteran Gaullist Olivier Guichard, 52, a baron and longtime Pompidou protége, could be in line for Messmer's job. Schumann's spot at the Quay d'Orsay could go to his smooth-mannered deputy, André Bettencourt, 53, who was named Acting Foreign Minister last week when Schumann resigned...
...leftists had problems with togetherness, however, the Gaullists had serious shortcomings in basic political perception. French voters may still fear the extreme left, but they are less and less Gaullist. Millions of French voters have not shared in the prosperity of the Gaullist era, and their enthusiasm for major parts of the leftist program - an increase in the minimum wage, a lower retirement age, better public housing and medical care - suggests that Pompidou will have to choose not only a new Premier and a reshuffled Cabinet but a new and thoroughly reshuffled set of national priorities, with more emphasis...