Joking aside, De Gaulle president is mostly recognized for his immense strategic vision with a legacy of assets from his great programs from the 5th republic, nuclear, space, aeronautics, computers…
Socially, he was out of touch and not at all in phase with the desires of the societies of the 60s and 70s. But he ended up resigning from the Elysee with 51% of popularity, it’s an absolute chad move for a french president.
Ok this is the dubest shit I’ve read in years. And we just had people who think that vaccines turn them into mindless drones.
French politicians are to De Gaulle what Mussolini is to Augustus.
“Let’s make Nixon pay up the gold” – Probably De Gaulle.
>Almost all tribes and tendencies of French politics claim to be, at least partially, followers or reincarnations of Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), the wartime leader of Free France and founder of the Fifth Republic.
Considering that :
1) The Fifth Republic is an elective monarchy.
2) De Gaulle is its founder and the first of its monarchs.
3) *The King* doesn’t truly die, but his monarchical substance passes from incarnation to incarnation, instantaneously and entirely. See Kantorowizcz’s [King’s Two Bodies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King's_Two_Bodies).
Every President is, indeed, the functional reincarnation of De Gaulle. *Quod erat demonstrandum*.
Because French politics has been completely ruined by De Gaulle and now it isn’t really as free or democratic as it could. It’s basically like Peronism in Argentina but on the other side of the spectrum and with the French, which is inherently worse on its own.
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tl;dr:
>In his lifetime, Charles de Gaulle was revered by some, detested by others. He was adulated. He was mocked. He was finally rejected.
>No longer. Half a century plus 12 months after his death, *de Gaulle is the presiding, many-headed deity of French politics.*
>**The far right, the right, the center, the left, the hard left, even some Greens, they are all “Gaullists” now.**
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>On Tuesday, there will be a mass pilgrimage of presidential hopefuls (and no-hopers) to a small village where le géneral is buried.
[To summarize](https://youtu.be/lSS4SXeVWCI).
Joking aside, De Gaulle president is mostly recognized for his immense strategic vision with a legacy of assets from his great programs from the 5th republic, nuclear, space, aeronautics, computers…
Socially, he was out of touch and not at all in phase with the desires of the societies of the 60s and 70s. But he ended up resigning from the Elysee with 51% of popularity, it’s an absolute chad move for a french president.
Ok this is the dubest shit I’ve read in years. And we just had people who think that vaccines turn them into mindless drones.
French politicians are to De Gaulle what Mussolini is to Augustus.
“Let’s make Nixon pay up the gold” – Probably De Gaulle.
>Almost all tribes and tendencies of French politics claim to be, at least partially, followers or reincarnations of Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), the wartime leader of Free France and founder of the Fifth Republic.
Considering that :
1) The Fifth Republic is an elective monarchy.
2) De Gaulle is its founder and the first of its monarchs.
3) *The King* doesn’t truly die, but his monarchical substance passes from incarnation to incarnation, instantaneously and entirely. See Kantorowizcz’s [King’s Two Bodies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King's_Two_Bodies).
Every President is, indeed, the functional reincarnation of De Gaulle. *Quod erat demonstrandum*.
Because French politics has been completely ruined by De Gaulle and now it isn’t really as free or democratic as it could. It’s basically like Peronism in Argentina but on the other side of the spectrum and with the French, which is inherently worse on its own.