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“... to dissolve the present Assembly in May 1989 and start the whole round all over again. Readers of René Rémond’s history of France in the 20th century will find these cascades of elections less surprising. On 16 November 1919, there were parliamentary elections; on 30 November and 7 December, municipal elections; on 14 and 21 December, elections for ...”

“... of bitterness. In the circumstances, the Archbishop of Lyons took a remarkably bold step. He asked René Rémond, one of the most distinguished historians of contemporary France, a known Catholic universally respected for his independence and integrity, to get a committee of historians together to investigate the ways and means whereby Touvier had managed ...”

“... be found in Gough and Home’s collection of essays, which includes chapters by Douglas Johnson, René Rémond, Julian Jackson, Michel Winock and Serge Berstein. Perhaps the most interesting contribution, however, is Jean-Marie Mayeur’s essay on ‘De Gaulle as Politician and Christian’, for the whole point about de Gaulle was that, although he came ...”