Michael Macdonald

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When he became President of France in 1958, he reinstalled a chapel in the Elysée Palace so he could attend Mass privately if he was in Paris over the weekend. But the ostentatious adolescent piety de Gaulle had displayed at Antoing was not characteristic of de Gaulle in adulthood.
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
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