![]() ![]() Michel Debré, Trois Républiques pour une France, Mémoires (Paris: Albin Michel, 1984–1988), vol. An Intimate Biography of Charles de Gaulle (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1960), 203. Jean-Pierre Rioux, “De Gaulle in Waiting, 1946–1958,” in Hugh Gough and John Horne, eds., De Gaulle and Twentieth Century France (London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1994), 36, 37.Īlden Hatch, The De Gaulle Nobody Knows. Pierre Nora, ed., Les lieux de mémoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1997), 2:2523, note 26.Ĭharles de Gaulle, Discours et messages, vol. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. More appropriate is use of a less fateful reference, L’attente (Waiting), the title, in fact, of the second volume of de Gaulle’s Discours et Messages (Speeches and Messages). De Gaulle’s followers describe these years as the “crossing of the desert.” The phrase, however, suggests a certain inevitability that the crossing was destined to succeed. In his 1,255-page biography of de Gaulle, he assigns just 36 pages to the years between 19, from the time the general resigned as head of France’s postwar government until his political restoration in the wake of the Algerian crisis and the mutiny within the French army. 2 Even his most comprehensive biographer, Jean Lacouture, passes over the period quickly. Not until 1970, when a multivolume edition of de Gaulle’s “ discours et messages” was published, did all his speeches of the period appear in print. Contemporary references to it are found in a single collection of texts, La France sera la France (France Will Be France), compiled by a then obscure colleague, Georges Pompidou, for the 1951 election. Yet de Gaulle scarcely speaks of the rally in his memoirs, giving it a dozen (purely factual) lines in the last volume of his Mémoires de guerre and about 30 (somewhat warmer) lines in the first volume of his Mémoires d’espoir. ![]() 1 Of this twelve and a half year “interment,” six are related to the life and death of the Rally of the French People ( Rassemblement du peuple française or RPF). The dozen years dating from de Gaulle’s “irrevocable” resignation on January 20, 1946, until his return to power on June 1, 1958, when the National Assembly appointed him as the Fourth Republic’s last premier, the last to head the regime he had always condemned, are poorly known. ![]()
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