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Philippe de Gaulle: "This idea that it is the end of France is exaggerated"

2022-01-07T06:20:25.495Z


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Admiral Philippe de Gaulle blew out his hundredth candle on December 28, and on January 12, his Memoirs are released in bookstores. He maintains the polemical remarks on the harkis, and strongly condemns the hold of justice on political life.


You have been a hundred since December 28.

What does this inspire you?

I was not excpecting that at all!

I thought I was killed when I was 18, during the war.

I would have preferred to lend some of my longevity to my father, so that he could live a few more years.

He still had a lot to write about.

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Hadn't he said the essential?

His

Memoirs

give an excellent overview, but he was aware that details were missing.

He thought that the French did not understand what he wanted to do and refused the choice of effort.

You surprised everyone by posting your memories at 80.

Have they not completed this unfinished story?

I tried, but had to delete half of my manuscript, which was too long!

My father wanted me to take care of his archives.

Over the years, he left his papers at the bottom of the cupboard at La Boisserie.

When I arrived, he would say to me:

"Here, you will take care of that ..."

It was necessary to sort for several years, and this overwhelming task has me ...

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Source: lefigaro

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