De Gaulle

From GaulleS, based on a very large archive, Julian Jackson explores all the dimensions of the mystery of Gaulle here, without seeking to give it an excessive coherence. No one had described his paradoxes and ambiguities, his political talent and his pragmatism with such acuity and mind. dazzling quotations of intelligence, funnyness, and sometimes wickedness, restore the words of De Gaulle but also the comments of all those who have learned to know him, to be wary of him or to exasperate his temperament of fire.Julian Jackson re-reads this extraordinary political existence and his relationship to France in the light of the questions of the past and those that occupy us today – and in particular colonial history and Europe, the place of France in the world, but also obviously the institutions of the Fifth Republic. A biographie full of nuances, which brings out the extravagant character of a singular person at any point of view, extraor