Volume 18, Number 3 · February 24, 1972
De Gaulle Redux
By Stanley Hoffmann
Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor
by Charles de Gaulle, translated by Terence Kilmartin
Simon & Schuster, 392 pp., $10.00
Les Chênes qu'on abat…
by André Malraux
Gallimard, 236 pp., 21 francs
No sooner had General de Gaulle resigned, after his defeat at the referendum of April 27, 1969, than he started writing a new memoir. Even before his defeat, which he seems to have anticipated, he had begun to prepare the documents he would need in his country house at Colombey. For the next year and a half, aides brought him the papers he requested. He worked almost uninterruptedly on his manuscript, even during his holidays in Ireland and in Spain, while his daughter typed his drafts in Colombey.
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