The Fifth French Republic
Subtitle: Presidents, Politics and Personalities
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 17, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780415187534
First sentence: Two crises gave Charles de Gaulle the opportunity of achieving the ambition which he described in the opening pages of the first volume of his Memoires de Guerre, L'Appel, when he wrote of the vision of France which had inspired his early years: Enfin, je ne doutais pas que l'interet de la vie consistait a lui rendre quelque service signale, et que j'en aurais l'occasion.