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Franz-Olivier Giesbert: "When we want to change a country, we can, the proof by de Gaulle"

2021-11-19T04:53:16.800Z


BIG INTERVIEW - In an Intimate History of the Fifth Republic, of which he published an excellent first volume, FOG recounts the antigaullism of his parents, his passion for General Salan, and how he ended up converting to General shortly after his death. A full testimony ...


This book is a big tip of the hat to the General, but you also emphasize the character's small sides.

One way to set yourself apart from the Gaullolâtres?

No.

I just tried to squeeze the substance out of the exhausting work of an archivist of reading the thousands of pages that have been written about the General by great witnesses or academics.

After that, how can you not be fascinated by his genius, his prophecies and his art of governing?

This did not mean that I was going to hide his pettiness, his cunning and his big lies, especially about Algeria.

I am obsessed with the truth, which is not the case, I admit, of the Gaullolâtres of whom you speak: they invented an edifying and bêtassonne legend which, alas, has become the doxa.

In a seven-year term, de Gaulle does slave labor ...

How not to be admiring?

De Gaulle carried out his reforms in all directions, with infernal rates and a state of mind like: it works or it breaks.

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Source: lefigaro

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