Author Julian Jackson says French history over the last century is full of thrills and spills that have fresh relevance in an era of tawdry politics.
Just out of school and before university, young Julian Jackson was polishing up his French. He befriended a French student and was invited to her home for dinner. It was a charming evening until he uttered two words: de Gaulle.
And if anyone is qualified to draw wider conclusions from recent French history, it’s Julian Jackson.
He had towered over almost everything. The contours of “Gaullism”, with its interventionist economic policies – employing an approach dating back more than three centuries to Louis X1V – remain in France today. Nearly 60 years later, the de Gaulle films are being produced and released by Pathé, a giant in the history of French cinema, and inventor of the newsreel. Pathé can draw on considerable historic influence in the Elysee Palace, and it may not be all that surprising if aAlamyappeared. It concerns the three-week trial of Field Marshal Philippe Petain, the hero of Verdun in World War I, and from 1940-44 the president of German-occupied Vichy France, for treason.
Four months after assuming power after France’s crushing defeat at the hands of Hitler’s armies, the true dimensions of France’s humiliation became apparent on October 24, 1940, when Petain was photographed shaking hands with Hitler on the site where Germany signed the armistice to end World War I.
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