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Pride and perversity Andrew Roberts examines why Charles de Gaulle is still running French foreign policy today
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Charles de Gaulle
by Julian Jackson
Haus, pounds 8.99, 182 pp
pounds 8.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
"OF ALL de Gaulle's many achievements", concludes the historian
Julian Jackson in this short but fine biography, "none will prove
more durable than the myth."
De Gaulle's obsessive self-mythologising began even before he made
his great broadcast about "the flame of French resistance" to the
French people from London on June 18, 1940, and by the end of his
life it had got so bad that he even started referring to himself in
the third person. Yet this myth spawned the political philosophy ...
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