Chapter 12

Chapter 12: “De Gaulle’s Golden Decade Ends in Tragicomedy.”

Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:

1. De Gaulle as the dominant French state-man of the 20th century. 
2. De Gaulle: a traditionalist, a conservative, a republican. 
3. The movement towards presidentialism (203). 
4. Depoliticize the government. Appointing technocrats. 
5. The problem of Algeria. Referendum: the colonies chose to remain within the Community (except for Guinea).
6. Terrorist attacks (FLN). 
7. The OAS. Massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris (1961). 
8. EEC: 1958. 
9. The “Trente glorieuses”. Reforms (208-209). 
10. The three “international realities” perceived by De Gaulle. 
11. André Malraux as first minister of culture (212); and the cultural revolution of the 60s (213). 
12. Literature (214). Philosophy, between structuralism and Marxism (215-216). 
13. May ‘68. No coherent political project.