Never had a president of the Fifth Republic been there. Sunday, Emmanuel Macron will move in Aisne, in Montcornet, theater of a tank battle, carried out on May 17, 1940 by colonel de Gaulle, in front of elements of the 10th panzerdivision. An unknown but founding episode of the Gaullian gesture. That of a visionary soldier, who launched a counter-offensive in the middle of a rout, with 85 armored vehicles without air support. "If I live, I will fight, where it will take, as long as it takes, until the enemy is defeated and washed away the national stain." What I was able to do later was that day that I solved it, ” said General de Gaulle in his War Memories. And to denounce the desertion of the command, struck by a"A kind of moral inhibition (of the chiefs) which makes them doubt everything and, in particular, themselves" .
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The tribute scheduled for Sunday - which will be the first appearance of the Head of State on a theme other than that of the coronavirus since
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