The Social Pathologist

One of the intellectual digressions that occupied me after reading Jackson's book on De Gaulle was the character of Jean Monnet .  I hav...

One of the reasons why I'm currently writing about Charles de Gaulle is because I feel that he has been unfairly maligned in the Anglosp...

 Back to regular programming. One of the reasons why I've been harping on about De Gaulle recently is because, after re-examining his li...

Most people might not be aware that the Catholic Church has just updated its code of Canon Law. In itself it's not really a big deal bu...

French-US relations took a dive after the Second World War and it needs to be understood as not a particularly "de Gaulle thing". ...

In London, Koenig simply ignored de Gaulle's instructions about ending contacts with Eisenhower, and Eisenhower, desperate to invite de ...

  The one thing that did worry some members of the Free French were de Gaulle's bouts of Anglophobia. Larminat and Eboue wrote in Septem...

When Charles de Gaulle ended up on the shores of England he had very little in the way of resources, men or support of any kind from the Fre...

When leaders fail, new leaders are projected upward out of the eternal spirit of France: from Charlemagne to Joan of Arc to Napoleon, Poin...

Now, I'll tell you how I felt about de Gaulle. About two years before de Gaulle came back into office I began to tell Dulles, I said, no...

  My children are politically interested but not woke and one of them, in particular, is quite cynical. This morning, over breakfast, he ask...

Apologies for not posting for a while but as I've mentioned in the comments section of a previous post, I'm currently down follow in...