Introduction
The great man's return
When De Gaulle was still unknown
The 1940 disaster
The free French epic
The liberation
1946-58: out of office, the R.P.F.
Into the Fifth Republic
The liquidation of the Algerian war
1962: the crisis and reinforcement of the De Gaulle régime
De Gaulle, Europe and the world
That man De Gualle
1965: a restless year.