Subtitled "Conversations with DeGaulle," this account by Andre Malraux finds the French leader at the end of his life to be practical and surprisingly modest. Other than the inviolable principle of preserving the ideal of France, everything was up for negotiation: alliances with Communists, the surrender of Algeria, the nationalization of parts of the economy. DeGaulle saw his importance not in what he said, but in the hope he roused.
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