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- Title
Grandeur et arrogance. Le général de Gaulle dans le Globe and Mail, 1958–1969.
- Authors
Lacombe, Sylvie
- Abstract
This article examines the perception of General Charles de Gaulle in the editorial pages of The Globe and Mail, from his return to politics in 1958 until his resignation in 1969. This exercise makes it possible to place the newspaper's reaction to the French President's famous call "Vive le Québec libre!" from the balcony of Montreal City Hall on July 24, 1967 in a broader context. The Globe and Mail took a great deal of interest in France's foreign policy, and the portrait of the French President as depicted in its editorial pages is most often informed and balanced. Three international situations are examined: the war in Algeria, Great Britain's attempts to join the European Common Market, and France's critical positions in terms of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and then its withdrawal from the organization. The analysis of this perception says a great deal about the newspaper itself and allows us to partially define the Canadian political imagination in the 1960s. We discover that rhetoric and decolonization were very present, as was Canada's past as a self-governing colony of the British Empire.
- Subjects
GAULLE, Charles de, 1890-1970; FRENCH foreign relations; NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization; DECOLONIZATION; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2021, Vol 55, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/jcs.2019-0022