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Nevertheless, in part due to his actions during the May 1968 crisis, he appeared as the natural successor to de Gaulle. Pompidou announced his candidature for the Presidency in January 1969. In social policy, Pompidou's tenure as prime minister witnessed the establishment of the National Employment Fund in 1963 to counter the negative effects ...
2 December 1887 8 years, 306 days Opportunist Republican The first President of France to complete a full term, he was easily reelected in December 1885. He was nonetheless forced to resign, following an honours scandal in which his son-in-law was implicated. The Government of Maurice Rouvier deputized during the interim (2–3 December 1887). 5
The SAC (French: Service d'Action Civique; or Civic Action Service), officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and Pierre Debizet , a former Resistant and official director of the group.
The de Gaulle family produced several 20th-century officers, Resistance members, and French politicians. There is a widespread notion claiming that the particle in "de Gaulle" is derived from a dialectal form of the article (it should logically be written De Gaulle, for one writes Le Châtelier, but usage has always favoured the lowercase form).
One of de Gaulle's grandsons, also named Charles de Gaulle, was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004, his last tenure being for the far-right National Front. [188] The younger Charles de Gaulle's move to the anti-Gaullist National Front was widely condemned by other family
The Union for the Defence of the Republic (French: Union pour la défense de la République [ynjɔ̃ puʁ la defɑ̃s də la ʁepyblik]), after 1968 renamed Union of Democrats for the Republic (French: Union des démocrates pour la République [ynjɔ̃ de demɔkʁat puʁ la ʁepyblik]), commonly abbreviated UDR, was a Gaullist [10] [11] political party of France that existed from 1967 to 1976.
The publication of his memoirs under the format of interviews at the end of his life, and the Journal de l'Elysée also published, in which, starting from 1965, Jacques Foccart transcribed his daily meetings with De Gaulle, have proved an invaluable resource for the knowledge of French policies in Africa.
The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the Fourth Republic, replacing the former parliamentary republic with a semi-presidential (or dual-executive) system [4] that split powers between a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. [5] Charles de Gaulle, who was the first French president elected under the ...