LE FIGARO.
- Most observers tend to oppose de Gaulle and Pompidou.
In
L'Énigme Pompidou-de Gaulle,
on the contrary
,
you show that they shared the same vision, even a not so distant style of government.
What are their differences and what do they have in common?
Arnaud TEYSSIER.
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Their differences were of generation, training and character.
De Gaulle, the Saint-Cyr, born in 1890, had known the Great War and understood, beyond a dearly acquired victory, the serious French weaknesses that it had revealed.
A great reader of Péguy, he was built against the system, convinced that it would lead to chaos: against the politics of parties and committees which dominated the Third Republic, and against the reigning military thought which struggled to free itself from the patterns. the most conformist.
Pompidou, born in 1911, was a pure normalien.
"Ambitious nonchalant",
in the words of his comrade Julien Gracq, he was the sparkling product of meritocracy
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