The choice to launch the "year of Gaulle", last Sunday, with a commemoration in Montcornet, in Aisne, may have surprised. It is a little-known episode in our history, a tank battle in May 1940 which has everything of a military defeat. But here it is: Emmanuel Macron wanted this tribute to glorify the "spirit of resistance" of Charles de Gaulle and to put, in passing, a stone in the garden of the opposition, starting with that of Xavier Bertrand, the president of Hauts-de-France and one of the potential candidates for 2022.
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A close friend of Emmanuel Macron does not hide it: “Xavier Bertrand tried to take the leadership in the year of Gaulle by trying to get closer to the Charles de Gaulle Foundation and the president of the Grand Est region, Jean Rottner , where Colombey-les-deux-Églises is located. Emmanuel Macron did not let it go. He took over . " Between the two personalities, gathered on the old battlefield, the tension was visible. Xavier Bertrand did not want
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