Was De Gaulle a great writer? The question was passionately discussed, because de Gaulle had in literature, very often, the same detractors as in politics. One of the most famous cases was that of Jacques Laurent who, in his Selfish History , which appeared in 1976 at the Round Table, attacked the style of De Gaulle in these terms: "If de Gaulle can be an illusion in his Memoirs where he takes care of his language and sometimes emboldens himself until pastichering writers of the XVIIth and XVIIIth, even succeeding in a portrait of Stalin, the natural style of De Gaulle is dressed up to the ridiculous ” .
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An irony that will be shared by Jean-François Revel who, too, will mock the style of the General… This is to say that Tillinac's task in his Dictionary in love with the General was not so easy. With the verve that he is known for, Tillinac makes an admiring but also lucid judgment on the General's talent for prosecution which reaches its peak in War Memories published by Plon, in the middle of the desert crossing.
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