Fifty years ago, on the evening of November 9, 1970, General de Gaulle died suddenly at La Boisserie.
His colleague Pierre-Louis Blanc had come to see him two weeks earlier:
“After lunch, we went to the living room.
He was seated, as usual, in the armchair placed against the wall, his back to the window, his arms resting on the armrests, his torso upright, towering over the room in his patriarch's stature.
This is exactly where he was when the aorta ruptured, resulting in his almost sudden death.
We had mentioned the hijackings of planes, the kidnappings, this anonymous violence which was beginning to shake the world with its murderous flashes.
I misinterpret what was burning, prophetic and anguish in the fresco he drew in broad strokes, with superb images, with his deep voice that he knew how to soften and modulate at will. "
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