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verses as proof that ‘French intellectuals have always betrayed France.’77 Of France’s nineteenth-century writers, none was more revered by de Gaulle than the romantic René de Chateaubriand whose Génie du christianisme played a role in the return to Catholicism of the French bourgeoisie – including families like his own – after the Revolution.
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
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