“After the death of General de Gaulle, there was no longer any question of greatness.
The General had said that the people had chosen to be a small people, so he had small rulers.
The smallest of these was keen to destroy everything that General de Gaulle had done;
that was his only constancy: to make what had been great become small, like him - his name was François Mitterrand.
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The opposition between Charles de Gaulle and François Mitterrand puts back to back a man who fights against the collapse of a civilization and an individual who does not care that civilization disappears as long as he can live in its ruins like a satrap.
The first gives his life to save France;
the second gives France to save his life.
One wants a strong, great and powerful France, able to inspire the Europe of States;
the other wants it weak, small and powerless, digested by the Europe of capitalism.
One is a Roman senator;
the other a citizen of Capua.
De Gaulle
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