Chapter 12: “De Gaulle’s Golden Decade Ends in Tragicomedy.”
Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:
De Gaulle as the dominant French state-man of the 20th century.
De Gaulle: a traditionalist, a conservative, a republican.
The movement towards presidentialism (203).
Depoliticize the government. Appointing technocrats.
The problem of Algeria. Referendum: the colonies chose to remain within the Community (except for Guinea).
Terrorist attacks (FLN).
The OAS. Massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris (1961).
EEC: 1958.
The “Trente glorieuses”. Reforms (208-209).
The three “international realities” perceived by De Gaulle.
André Malraux as first minister of culture (212); and the cultural revolution of the 60s (213).
Literature (214). Philosophy, between structuralism and Marxism (215-216).
May ‘68. No coherent political project.
