"It is in the midst of combat that we must be reborn": in 1944, Charles de Gaulle and the return of democracy
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General de Gaulle, July 11, 1944 in Ottawa (Canada). Yousuf Karsh/Camerapress / Gamma-Rapho
Established in Algiers in November 1943, the Provisional Consultative Assembly was transferred to Paris a year later, a few months after the liberation of the capital. Charles de Gaulle, then president of the provisional government, delivered a speech on November 9, 1944, on this key step towards the return of the democratic Republic.
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I subscribe"A new step on the road that leads us both to victory and to democracy." In opening the first session of the Provisional Consultative Assembly in Paris on November 9, 1944, Charles de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, inseparably linked the two: the recovery of territorial integrity and the reestablishment of republican legality. This duality is reflected throughout his speech.
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