Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux and Henri Guaino: what economic lessons can we learn from Gaullism?

Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, you wanted to deal with De Gaulle's question from an economic perspective.

Can we say that he had an economic doctrine?

Geoffroy ROUX DE BÉZIEUX

. - I wrote this book to try to demystify certain preconceived ideas about General de Gaulle and the economy. First of all, he was interested in the economy! And even since the start of his career. A young non-commissioned soldier, who had no political training, he gave a conference when he was a prisoner and spoke of economics. He had a certain number of fundamentals, around budgetary austerity, around inflation. We can consider that he is an ordo-liberal, that is to say someone who considers that the market economy is necessary but not sufficient. On the other hand, he was able to adapt tremendously to the circumstances and show pragmatism. By allying with people who did not necessarily agree with him or by making people with contradictory opinions work. And then

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