When Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was called Winston Churchill.
And, in France, the President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol.
We measure by these names which belong to history how much the queen, by the duration of her reign, has largely gone through the last half-century, at the head of a country which has known so many changes and crises: decolonization, question of Northern Ireland, accession to the European Union, the Falklands conflict, and more recently Brexit.
Obviously, in accordance with her status, the sovereign did not take part directly in the management of these events;
nevertheless, the shadow of Commander Elizabeth continues to overhang the life of the country.
French history is different.
In 1793, the violent death of King Louis XVI severed the historical link between France and the monarchical principle.
However, the founders of the Third Republic had established a seven-year term for the president, having understood that the “long time” was…
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