{"id":9987,"date":"2020-07-01T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:55:26","slug":"foot-on-de-gaulle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9987","title":{"rendered":"Foot on de Gaulle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[I]n 1940 the external leader was hardly known, even by name, within the country that he felt he <em>was<\/em>. As P\u00e9tain the hero of Verdun was the most senior, de&nbsp;Gaulle was the most junior general officer in the French army; P\u00e9tain was a world figure; de&nbsp;Gaulle was a nobody. He was so dim that the BBC did not bother to record his original broadcast of 18 June 1940, which gaullists now revere as the starting-point of resistance. A few professional friends, and a handful of politicians, knew him; a few people had read his books on military theory, one of them dedicated to P\u00e9tain under whom he had served. His name sounded like a magniloquent pseudonym. It was in fact an old one \u2014 a Sieur de&nbsp;Gaulle had fallen at Agincourt \u2014 and one of his grandmothers was a MacCartan of Lille, descendant of an Irish soldier who had preferred Louis XIV to William\u00a0III. It was not an ancestry to predispose a man to love the English.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014M.R.D. Foot,\u00a0<em>Resistance<\/em>, (London: Biteback Publishing Ltd, 2016),\u00a0369.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I]n 1940 the external leader was hardly known, even by name, within the country that he felt he was. As P\u00e9tain the hero of Verdun was the most senior, de&nbsp;Gaulle was the most junior general officer in the French army; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9987\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}