 | tisme,
71114; Quillot,
La SFIO et l'exercice du pouvoir,
5659; and Colton,
Léwon Blum,
455-61. "The Communists never forgave Blum for his role in blocking unity," contends Colton (459).
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| 13. Campaign poster, MRP papers, AN, 350 AP, box 1.
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| 14.
Pour rebatir la France,
papers prepared for the First National Congress, November 2526, 1944, MRP Papers, AN, 350 AP, box 12.
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| 15.
Compte rendu du Comité directeur,
June2324, 1945, MRP papers, AN, 350 1 AP, box 1. On Christian Democracy generally, see Rémond,
Les droites en France,
241; Mayeur and Rebérioux,
The Third Republic from Its Origins to the Great War,
300302; Bernard and Dubief,
The Decline of the Third Republic,
25357.
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| 16. Minutes of the Executive Commission, August 9, 1945, MRP papers, AN, 350 AP, box 45.
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| 17. Teitgen,
Faites entrer le témoin suivant,
308.-An article in
Le Monde
on January 22, 1946, stated that de Gaulle's departure caused "more sadness and apprehension than surprise"; the paper then went on to suggest in two editorials that France could survive without him.
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| 18. There are various versions of this meeting, including Lacouture,
De Gaulle,
2: 23849, and Elgey,
La République des illusions,
85113. De Gaulle, of course, provides his own account, in
Mémoires de guerre,
3: 28490.
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| 19. The minutes of this meeting of the Executive Commission of the MRP, held at 5:30 p.m. on January 20 at the Quai d'Orsay, may be found in MRP papers, AN, 350 AP, box 45, and Teitgen,
Faites entrer,
56775.
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| 20. The phrase is Crozier's,
La société bloquée;
and see Rioux,
The Fourth Republic,
106. On the constitutional settlement in general, see Goguel,
France under the Fourth Republic,
157, and Williams,
Crisis and Compromise
.
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| 21. Larkin,
France since the Popular Front,
151. For similar views, see Wright,
The Reshaping of French Democracy,
23157, and Thomson,
Democracy in France since 1870,
23758.
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| 22. De Gaulle,
Mémoirs de guerre,
3:240, 258; Frenay,
La nuit finira,
561; see also Bourdet,
L'aventure incertaine,
430.
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| 23. Luethy,
France against Herself,
40. For a similar line of contemporary analysis, see Schoenbrun.
As Franee Goes,
15264.
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