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“... by Napoleon Bonaparte that Malraux had made almost anonymously in 1930, and published as Vie de Napoléon par lui-même. The publishers obviously felt that ‘Malraux’ was a better-selling name than that of the Emperor himself. So, half a generation since his death in 1976 at the age of 75, André Malraux is still a celebrity. The University of ...”

“... final effort to rescue France in the mid 20th century, with the creation of the Fifth Republic by Charles deGaulle, his hero and model – another thing that sets him apart from the Le Pen dynasty and others on the French right, who see de Gaulle as the man who surrendered to ...”

“... environmental consequences with due seriousness. In contrast, at the rival hubs at Schipol or Charles deGaulle, demand is to be met by well thought-out government decisions to build new airports to relieve the problems of congestion – an off-shore airport near Schipol and a third Paris airport towards ...”

“... about how easy it is to get lost. The old centre, an encrustation either side of the avenue Charles deGaulle, is on its state-sponsored way to becoming a new, upstart part of town, pinned in place by a five-star Kempinski hotel (‘156 deluxe rooms’), which already functions as the guesthouse of the ...”

“... world, as chronicled by Barnes; even among the loudest and most insistent personalities of fin-de-siècle Paris, the mild-mannered Dr Pozzi more than held his own. And he knew everybody, or at least that small segment of the population that considered itself to be everybody.And yet, unless you’ve seen the painting – which was for a long time held by ...”

“... for example, and even, belatedly, airports – Krier approves of the new departure gates at Charles deGaulle, and César Pelli’s work at Washington. What he finds dangerous is innovation for the sake of innovation – although so did Mies van der Rohe, who always wanted to design good buildings rather than ...”

“... Jean Moulin, the only politician and Resistance leader who might have disputed the primacy with Charles deGaulle as the war ended. Other countries, more easily destabilised by the time-bomb and the sub-machine-gun, and less certain where the loyalties of their policemen lie, will have other memories – some of them ...”

“... an Islamic France. In 1959, three years before he presided over the end of Algérie française, Charles deGaulle told his confidant Alain Peyrefitte that France would have to withdraw from Algeria, because the alternative – full French citizenship for the indigènes – would turn it into an Islamic state: Do you ...”

“... would be solved if Chechnya were given its independence. But Chechnya’s two chaotic years of de facto independence between 1997 and 1999 had put paid to that. Chechnya now seemed to be a launch pad for terrorism throughout Russia. The anarchy of 1997-99 far exceeded the troubles of Chechnya’s first spell of independence between 1991 and 1994. Those ...”

“... sheer persistence then. The list of people who’d worked on Debray’s case since 1967 included De Gaulle’s secretary when De Gaulle was president, De Gaulle’s successor, Georges Pompidou, the staff at the French Embassy in La Paz, the minister of foreign affairs and ...”

“... against some recalcitrant minority either within or outside parliament. It doesn’t always work. Charles deGaulle was the master of this kind of politics until he called one plebiscite too many in 1969 and was finished. It is also easy to forget that the first referendum held in the British Isles took place in ...”

“... early period Star Trek – it does have this virtue: it perfectly exemplifies the way in which Fin de Siècle scientific romances, while overtly furnished with future technologies, were responding to a contemporary social impasse. Marxist critics such as Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson and, more recently, Matthew Beaumont in his excellent survey Utopia ...”

“... to women’s clothes, and she may have been a bit too soft on our awkward but admirable ally, Charles deGaulle. This peccadillo cannot fairly be compared with Unity addressing two hundred thousand Nazis at Hesselberg, alongside Streicher, and telling them: ‘I want everyone to know that I am a Jew-hater.’ No ...”

“... praised by Delmore Schwartz, and he was an elegant, speedy translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir. Further information was in short supply, and he was unhelpful when publicists tried to elicit more of it, but he seemed to have some sort of Anglo-Irish background. Though he spoke with an upper-class English accent, he hadn’t issued a correction ...”

“... from Les Quatre Cents Coups into Cocteau’s Le Testament d’ Orphée. The synopsis is called Pas de chance, and was first published in Brussels in 1950. A young man comes out of gaol, quarrels with his girlfriend, and kills her by accident. The next day, he feels rather proud of his deed, and wishing to acknowledge it, tries to give himself up. No one ...”