his role in the RPF was to use the magic of his rhetoric to transfigure the banality of day-to-day politics into Legend and History. As he had once said of his previous hero T. E. Lawrence: ‘It is not the man who makes the legend but the legend that makes the man.’ Malraux and Soustelle were the heart and head of the RPF, jockeying for de Gaulle’s favour.
