Charles De Gaulle and the Media: Leadership, TV and the Birth of the Fifth Republic

317 Pages·2018·2.92 MB·English

by  Riccardo Brizzi (auth.)

FRENCH POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
CHARLES DE GAULLE
AND THE MEDIA
Leadership, TV and the Birth of the Fifth Republic
Riccardo Brizzi
French Politics, Society and Culture
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Riccardo Brizzi
Charles De Gaulle
and the Media
Leadership, TV and the Birth of the Fifth Republic
Riccardo Brizzi
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
Translated by Jon Kear
French Politics, Society and Culture
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To Fulvio with Gratitude, on the Eve of the Beginning of a New Project
A c
rchives onsulted
Archives of the Fondation Charles de Gaulle
– Archives of the Rassemblement du peuple français (A-L)
National Archives, Paris (AN)
– Archives of the Presidency of the Republic (5 AG 1)
– Association nationale pour le soutien de l’action du Général de
Gaulle (AS)
– Archives of the Ministry of Information (F41)
– Raymond Cartier Collection (14 AR)
– «Le Petit Parisien» Collection (11AR)
– Louis Terrenoire Collection (449AP)
National Archives, Fontainebleau (ANF)
– Pierre Sabbagh Collection
Centre d’histoire de l’Europe du vingtième siècle, Fondation nationale
des sciences politiques
– Michel Debré Collection (AMD)
– Archive of the Club Jean Moulin (CJM)
– Hubert Beuve-Méry Collection (BM)
– François Goguel Collection (FG)
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viii ARCHIVES CONSULTED
Office universitaire de recherche socialiste (OURS)
– Guy Mollet Collection (AGM)
Inathèque de France, Bibliothèque nationale de France (INA)
– Charles De Gaulle Collection
– Jean Lecanuet Collection
– François Mitterrand Collection
– Guy Mollet Collection
– Georges Pompidou Collection
– Archive of the Ortf (Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française)
A
cknowledgement
This book is a revised and updated edition of L’uomo dello schermo. De
Gaulle e i media, originally published in Italy in 2010 by Il Mulino and
later translated into French by Presses Universitaires de Rennes (De Gaulle
et les médias. L’homme du petit écran, 2014).
The book was made possible thanks to the help and advice of several
people. I wish in particular to thank Paolo Pombeni and Gaetano Quagliariello
who supervised my doctoral thesis, Fulvio Cammarano, to whom I dedi-
cate this book, Maria Serena Piretti and Stefano Cavazza, who have con-
stantly provided me with help and encouragement. I also wish to thank
Palgrave and especially Jocelyn Evans, Ambra Finotello, Imogen Gordon
Clark and Periyanayagam Leoselvakumar for believing in this project. To
Jon Kear I also offer my thanks for his sensitive and precise translation.
I am indebted to several people who have contributed enlightening
discussions of parts of this book. I wish to thank and acknowledge in this
regard Fabrice d’Almeida, Christian Delporte, Georgette Elgey, Jean-
Noël Jeanneney, Marc Lazar, Gilles Le Béguec, Jean-Marie Mayeur,
Nicolas Roussellier, the late René Rémond, Pierre Rosanvallon and Olivier
Wieviorka. I also wish to thank my friends and colleagues at the Department
of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna and on the
board of the periodical Ricerche di storia politica.
I am grateful to all those who have provided me with assistance in
accessing archives and cultural institutions; particular thanks are due to
Agnès Callu, Gérard Ermisse, Martine de Boisdeffre (Archives Nationales
in Paris); Christine Pétillat (Archives Nationales, Centre des Archives
Contemporaines de Fontainebleau); Philippe Oulmont and Guillaume
ix
x ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Papazoglou (Fondation et Institut Charles de Gaulle, Paris); Jean-François
Sirinelli and Dominique Parcollet (Archives d’Histoire Contemporaine de
la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris); Denis Lefebvre
(Archives de L’Office Universitaire de Recherche Socialiste, Paris); Denis
Maréchal (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Paris); the staff at the
Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Inathèque de France and the library
of the Senate of the Republic in Rome. Special thanks is owed to Etienne
Burin des Roziers, Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, Pierre Lefranc, Charles
Koubésserian, Édouard Sablier and Michel Bongrand, key figures during
the Gaullist era who kindly agreed, over the years, to meet me and pro-
vided me with their invaluable first-hand testimonies.
My heartfelt thanks to Pierpaolo, Estelle, Roberto, Paola and Émilie for
their generous hospitality when I was in France; without their warm
friendship and support my research trips to France would have been much
less interesting and far more costly. Last but not the least, I wish to thank
my family for their unfailing support and affection.