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Quotation by Charles De Gaulle
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Speeches of General de Gaulle (1941)
quoted in André Maurois, "The Art of Leadership" The Art of Living (1940)
quoted in De Gaulle Jean Lacouture (1965)
quoted in Encounter (London, June 1975)
quoted in Independent (London, April 21, 1990)
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Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlesly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!
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Charles De Gaulle
Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970), French general, president. War Memoirs, vol. 3, ch. 7 (1959).
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