The Other De Gaulle: Diaries 1944-1954
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the epicentre of liberated Paris, Claude Mauriac — son of Nobel laureate François Mauriac and private secretary to Charles de Gaulle — recorded with unflinching candour the political upheavals, personal contradictions, and intimate revelations of one of history's most formidable statesmen. The Other de Gaulle presents a decade of diary entries spanning 1944 to 1954, charting de Gaulle's transition from wartime liberator to political exile during the fractious years of the Fourth Republic, rendered in English by translators Moura Budberg and Gordon Latta. What distinguishes this work is its rare dual perspective: Mauriac chronicles not merely the public titan but the private man — his silences, his contempt, his surprising tenderness — offering a portrait that official biographies invariably omit. As a document of twentieth-century French political life, it sits alongside the great insider memoirs of its era, written with the literary sensibility one would expect from a member of France's most celebrated literary dynasty. Who, one is left to wonder, was the other de Gaulle that even those closest to him struggled to fully know?
Author: Claude Mauriac
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the epicentre of liberated Paris, Claude Mauriac — son of Nobel laureate François Mauriac and private secretary to Charles de Gaulle — recorded with unflinching candour the political upheavals, personal contradictions, and intimate revelations of one of history's most formidable statesmen. The Other de Gaulle presents a decade of diary entries spanning 1944 to 1954, charting de Gaulle's transition from wartime liberator to political exile during the fractious years of the Fourth Republic, rendered in English by translators Moura Budberg and Gordon Latta. What distinguishes this work is its rare dual perspective: Mauriac chronicles not merely the public titan but the private man — his silences, his contempt, his surprising tenderness — offering a portrait that official biographies invariably omit. As a document of twentieth-century French political life, it sits alongside the great insider memoirs of its era, written with the literary sensibility one would expect from a member of France's most celebrated literary dynasty. Who, one is left to wonder, was the other de Gaulle that even those closest to him struggled to fully know?