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Article: Mauriac et de Gaulle: Les Ordres de la Charite et de la Grandeur.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Mauriac et de Gaulle: Les Ordres de la Charite et de la Grandeur. By MALCOLM SCOTT. Bordeaux: L'Esprit du Temps. 1999. 264 pp. 90 F.
During the last ten years of his life, Francois Mauriac became known above all as a loyal, not to say notorious, supporter and defender of de Gaulle's presidency. Malcolm Scott offers a fuller picture of Mauriac's relationship with de Gaulle, which developed over a thirty-year period from the Second World War to their deaths at the beginning of the 1970s. Scott sets himself an apparently difficult task, given that the two had little in the way of direct contact, meeting and corresponding infrequently, and then usually in the most formal ...