Culture‘Great moral courage’: The French thought they knew de Gaulle, then realised they didn’t
François Picard welcomes British historian Julian Jackson to discuss his biography of General de Gaulle, which laid the groundwork for the two-part French biopic. Following the film’s surprise box-office success, Jackson’s book, “La Chute: France 1940,” has been released in French. He revisits Paris’s occupation and France’s extraordinary collapse in the summer of 1940.
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‘Great moral courage’: The French thought they knew de Gaulle, then realised they didn’t
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