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Article: Pride and perversity Andrew Roberts examines why Charles de Gaulle is still running French foreign policy today

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Charles de Gaulle

by Julian Jackson

Haus, pounds 8.99, 182 pp

pounds 8.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

"OF ALL de Gaulle's many achievements", concludes the historian Julian Jackson in this short but fine biography, "none will prove more durable than the myth."

De Gaulle's obsessive self-mythologising began even before he made his great broadcast about "the flame of French resistance" to the French people from London on June 18, 1940, and by the end of his life it had got so bad that he even started referring to himself in

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