In charge of maintaining the memory of Charles de Gaulle, the association spoke, Wednesday, to deplore “approximate” references or even “deliberately abusive” at the work of the Founder of the Fifth Republic.
Le Monde
In the aftermath of the Eric Zemmour Far Straight Application Declaration, in the form of a video containing the visual codes of the call of June 18, 1940, the Charles de Gaulle Foundation published, Wednesday 1 sup> Er December, a statement on the tone of a focus on the references made to the thought of the general since the beginning of the campaign for the presidential election.
“The reference to the work of General de Gaulle has never been so frequent, but never has been so approximate, and sometimes even deliberately abusive, until the lie”, first writes the Council of the foundation, led by the former minister and current chairman of the departmental council of Savoie, Hervé Gaymard. “He had always rejected forcibly those who claimed to rebuild France by fueling tensions, dividing the French, opposing them to each other,” also says the statement.
The positions of the Charles de Gaulle Foundation in the public debate are rare. Its action, which involves support for research projects, the organization of public events or meetings with young people, is to maintain “the memory of General de Gaulle and [to transmit] his intellectual and cultural heritage in accordance with to the wish he had expressed after his departure of power “, according to The presentation text published on its website . She is also responsible for the management of Boisserie, a family home of Charles de Gaulle, open to the public in Colombey-les-Deux-Churches (Haute-Marne).
“It’s betraying his thought that to take pieces with his will “
The press release does not mention Eric Zemmour but returns to one of the candidate’s statements, who said that “Petain saved French Jews”. “About Marshal Petain, [Charles de Gaulle] performs in a few clear lines the so-called” sword and shield “theory:” This is the term of this awful series of abandons where, under the pretext of ‘save the furniture’ We accepted the bondage “”, write the directors, before adding: “It is betraying his thought that to take pieces at his will, as at the stall of a merchant, and to divert meaning. “
The speeches of Eric Zemmour, who place a large part in the history of France, have deteriorated on the campaign themes addressed by the other right-wing candidates to the presidential election. On the occasion of the 51 years of the death of Charles de Gaulle, nine of them had to pay tribute to him, including the five contenders of the right to the investiture of the party the Republicans.
Despite the historical opposition of his training for the general, Marine Le Pen, candidate designated by the national rally, had chosen not to go to Colombey-les-Deux-Churches for the benefit of a trip in two times. She went to the Calvados, first at Courseulles-sur-Mer – the leader of free France landed there in June 1944 – and then to Bayeux, where General de Gaulle, in his speech of June 16, 1946 , launched the institutional bases of the V e Republic.
“The family is not there to bring a political deposit to a candidate, whatever he is. What we want is that in the current political debate, we keep a certain dignity,” said At journalists, the same day, the grandson of Charles de Gaulle, Pierre de Gaulle. The Foundation did not say something else, Wednesday, specifying at the end of communiqué that “de Gaulle does not belong to any political family. It belongs to France, it belongs to any particular person, and especially not to Those who would like to seize his image and the symbol of courage and determination he embodies to endorse some political enterprise whatsoever – especially if this company is clearly contrary to the principles he defended “.