At the age of 15, a student at the Jesuit College of the Immaculate Conception in Paris, the young Charles de Gaulle blackened a twenty-page notebook in which he described an imaginary conflict which depicted three German armies crossing the Vosges. It is an autobiographical text of anticipation. The young author gives himself the age of Napoleon at Wagram and throws himself at the head of an army of 200,000 men. He names his character in a concise manner: General de Gaulle. For him, writing is already a way of announcing himself and putting his hand on the future. Writing, however, in his mind does not fall under prophecy. The General is not Nostradamus. It will always be for him a way of clarifying his thought, of posing it publicly, of meditating on men and on events. It is also the first phase of the action.
The text of June 18 is the first act of French resistance to the occupier.
A man reads the leaflets he had given to Elisabeth de Miribel.
He is alone, he is exiled, he
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