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Gaullism

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Gaull·ism  (glzm, gô-)
n.
1. The political movement supporting Gen. Charles de Gaulle as leader of the French government in exile during World War II.
2.
a. The political movement headed by Charles de Gaulle after World War II.
b. The political principles and goals of Charles de Gaulle and his followers.
Gaullist n.
Gaullism
1. the principles and policies of Charles de Gaulle during World War II in support of the Free French and opposed to the Vichy regime.
2. the political principles, chiefly conservative and nationalistic, of de Gaulle as French president, 1959-69. — Gaullist, n., adj.
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The argument in Europe, he suggests, will be about how to respond to America, with a choice between a new form of Gaullism that seeks to build an independent European superpower and a renewed effort to restore a modified form of the traditional Cold War Atlanticism.
Old friends: how dramatic is the rift between Europe and America? by Walker, Martin / Washington Monthly
Judt's failure to do so is explained in part by his too ready identification of Gaullism with illiberalism and authoritarianism.
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French ... by Mahoney, Daniel J. / The National Interest
For they had in mind the needs of a specific segment of France's postwar reconstruction culture: the art world's elitist bourgeois consumers, whose political leanings seem to have oscillated between a nostalgic royalism and authoritarian, antidemocratic impulses eventually absorbed by Gaullism.
Klein and poses by Buchloch, Benjamin H.D. / Artforum International
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