In a little less than a month, the Republicans will choose their presidential candidate. This party wants to be the heir in a straight line of General de Gaulle, and those who intend to wear its colors do not cease, for understandable reasons, to multiply the references. We place ourselves under its protection, we pretend to continue its work, without really defining it. But the official de Gaulle is often a cardboard de Gaulle, deconstructed and reconstructed, without roughness, which bears little resemblance to the historical de Gaulle, which shaped events, which weighed on the course of history. This is what Franz-Olivier Giesbert underlines, in a remarkable work,
Le Sursaut
, having the immense virtue of reminding us of the existence of a reality prior to its leveling out by several decades of media polishing.
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