(Paris) General de Gaulle “does not belong to any political family”, reacted Wednesday the Charles De Gaulle Foundation, criticizing in particular without naming Eric Zemmour, the day after the announcement by this far-right polemicist of his candidacy in the April presidential election in France.
“The reference to the work of General de Gaulle has never been so frequent, but never has it been so approximate, and sometimes even deliberately abusive, to the point of lying,” said the foundation in a statement released Wednesday, created to maintain the memory of the founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958.
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General de Gaulle, during the appeal of June 18, 1940 for the resistance of the French people against the German occupier.
In the thought of General de Gaulle, the first French president elected by direct universal suffrage, the Republic constitutes “an integrating principle”, judges the Foundation. His message “expresses an inextinguishable faith in our country’s ability to leapfrog” in which “the unity of the nation and the cohesion of society had to be preserved at all costs”.
“This is why he had always strongly rejected those who claimed to rebuild France by stoking tensions, by dividing the French, by opposing them to each other”, says the Foundation.
De Gaulle “does not belong to anyone”
De Gaulle “does not belong to anyone in particular, and especially not to those who would like to seize his image and the symbol of courage and determination that he embodies to endorse any political enterprise whatsoever-especially if this enterprise is manifestly contrary to the principles he defended, ”still tackles the Foundation, still without naming Mr. Zemmour.
In his candidacy video released on Tuesday, Eric Zemmour reads a text behind a microphone, mimicking the parallel with General de Gaulle’s appeal of June 18, 1940 to the resistance of the French people against the German occupier.
Paced by the 2e movement of the 7e Beethoven’s symphony, the video with nostalgic accents, recorded two weeks ago, mixes scenes of violence in France, archives of the “land of Notre-Dame-de-Paris and the bell towers”, of the Concorde, of the Arc de Triomphe or film clips.
On November 7, General De Gaulle’s grandson, Pierre De Gaulle, criticized Eric Zemmour’s earlier comments about Vichy France, during an interview with the LCI continuous news channel (at 10:19 of the following video):