Volume 32, Number 10 · June 13, 1985
Mr. France
By Robert O. Paxton
Pierre Mendès France
by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch
Holmes and Meier, 486 pp., $34.50
Pierre Mendès France is remembered as the one bright light in the otherwise lack-luster French Fourth Republic, which lasted from 1946 to 1958. Jean Lacouture's sympathetic and richly informed biography supports that reputation. Its mood is one of admiration tinged with regret. Lacouture presents Mendès France as a man of rare qualities who never quite managed to convert them into sustained political power or lasting achievement.
Review, 2165 words
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