The press is unanimous
November 10, 2 p.m.
If, as the General liked to say,
“freedom is contagious”, so is
sadness.
Like the entire country, telephone exchanges are blocked.
France then puts itself in a strange state of wakefulness - of the order of that which is traditionally reserved for the family of the deceased.
The French are looking for each other to comment on the drama and the calls are too numerous to be regulated.
They express the same dismay.
The period images show a disoriented France, the auctioneers of the Champs-Élysées stroll along the avenue, hesitating to call the barge.
In front of the kiosks, Parisians congregate and frantically leaf through the newspapers.
De Gaulle's coffin, placed on an armored vehicle, leaving La Boisserie for the church of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, November 12, 1970. AFP
"General de Gaulle is dead", headlines
Le Monde
before specifying:
"It is in the living room of the house, while he was making a success, sitting at his bridge table while waiting for the 8 pm TV news, that he was sick.
“My back hurts”, he said
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