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Charles de Gaulle reconsidered

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Historian Julian Jackson, author of a major new biography of Charles de Gaulle, offers a fresh take on the iconic French leader, exploring his role in World War Two and decolonisation, among other things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.7

He wanted to assert France's role in the world, but he was only too aware of France's diminished role.

0:53.7

So for him, grandeur wasn't some kind of absurd idea that France could become too aware of France's diminished role.

1:00.0

So for him, grandeur wasn't some kind of absurd idea that France could become the equal of America or the Soviet Union.

1:01.8

He never believed anything like that.

1:03.6

He was, therefore, always a mixture of a dreamer and a realist.

1:07.6

And it's that that makes him very difficult to pin down.

1:11.4

That was Julian Jackson talking about Shalda Gould.

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You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine.

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