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Franz-Olivier Giesbert: "De Gaulle believed in the difference of civilizations"

2021-11-03T15:30:41.789Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - This first volume of an Intimate History of the Fifth Republic insists on the genius of the General without obscuring the gray areas. Exciting.


Franz-Olivier Giesbert revives in this

intimate History of the Fifth Republic

with his great biographies of Mitterrand and Chirac.

The journalist acts as a historian in this remarkable saga which will be composed of three volumes, drawing from the best sources as well as from his personal memories.

The one who knew all the presidents of the Fifth Republic, with the exception of its founder, retraces with a very new eye the great episodes which led the country to the decline in which it is currently.

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This first volume focuses on the Gaullist leap, of which it does not hide the gray areas, while knowing how to restore the genius of the General to its historical dimension, both in its capacity to found a new Republic and to bring the country out of the Algerian rut.

De Gaulle hoped to find in the construction of a Europe of six a means of giving France a new place in the concert of nations, without being fooled by the dangers of the federalist project.

A book which, in the

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Source: lefigaro

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