DBWI: WI Charles de Gaulle survived?

MrHola

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Jean Bastien-Thirywas the one who led the assassination against Charles de Gaulle. The group set themselves up in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on August 22, 1962. De Gaulle's car, an unarmoured Citroën DS, and nearby shops were raked with machine gun fire and De Gaulle himself died of an abdominal wound.

So what if, Charles de Gaulle survived the machine-gun fire? What are the long-term effects on France and Europe as a whole?
 
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not that politcal Chaos wat happen after De Gaulle death

for those how don't remember
after Constitution of France, the President of the Senate acts as interim president
until a new presidential election.

but the President of the Senate was Gaston Monnerville
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The grandson of a black slave from French Guiana!

the conservatives French were shocked
UDCA populist party member Jean-Marie lePen called him "the black"
the NFL hope from Monnerville a fast independence for Algeria
OAS only gaine the Rage of French people for De Gaulle murder
alot of "Pied-Noir" (french colonists of Algeria) Refugees were lynch in france
OAS answering with more violence
France was in Civil war and 2 year until next presidential election.
 

Hendryk

Banned
Well, de Gaulle was already pretty old when he was killed, almost 72, so I doubt he would have had the stamina to stay in power for much longer. Plus his takeover was made possible by the Algerian crisis, but with the situation settled--however painfully--he would no longer have a reason to stay in charge. My guess is that he would have remained the president until the 1965 election, and at that point handpicked a successor to run as the next Gaullist candidate (probably Michel Debré, who had just served four years as his prime minister, though Georges Pompidou or Maurice Couve de Murville would have been on the short list as well).

However, had de Gaulle not been killed in 1962, France wouldn't have been the first European country to have a Black president, namely Gaston Monnerville. As the chairman of the Senate, he stepped in as interim president the day after de Gaulle's assassination, and stepped down after elections could be held three months later. Some say he might even have been elected for a full seven-year term had he decided to run, but that's pure speculation.
 

MrHola

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What about British entry in the EEC? De Gaulle was vehemently opposed to that. He also had some (supposed) qualms about NATO.

(OOC: how does the EU look like without De Gaulle stopping everything?)
 

Hendryk

Banned
What about British entry in the EEC? De Gaulle was vehemently opposed to that.
Ah yes, de Gaulle was rather prickly when it came to national sovereignty. But that, in fact, would in my opinion have prompted him to accept British membership in the EEC, since Britain was openly skeptical of any attempt at supranational integration, and as such would have been an objective ally of Gaullist nationalism; all the other member states were pro-integration and whether France could have taken them on alone is far from certain.

Some historians have speculated that de Gaulle was too Anglophobic to accept the British application, but I think he would have been pragmatic on that one, and let Britain in the better to stall the EEC's drive towards political integration.
 

Hendryk

Banned
De Gaulle's assassination did send shockwaves throughout the Western world--the idea of a major head of state being gunned down in his car seemed to belong to an earlier era, that of Austrian archdukes, and certainly not the modern world of the 1960s. One wonders whether the decision by Kennedy to only ride in closed armored cars from that point on would still have been taken if de Gaulle had lived. Not that it would have protected him from dwindling popularity, his presidency's various scandals catching up with him, and his losing the 1964 election to Nelson Rockefeller.
 

MrHola

Banned
And Rockefeller got the US embroiled in the Vietnam quagmire. (OOC: Wasn't Rockefeller rather hawkish and wanted to participate in Vietnam?)
 
oh Yes, the presidential election of 1965 was Major surpise

Gaston Monnerville became second President of French Fifth Republic

the french voters put strong singal to conservatives: "WE WANT CHANGE"
and also punish Jean-Marie Le Pen how run as Candidate

Le Pen was excluded from National Assembly and the UDCA populist party in 1962
after the used of very racial insults during in Speech of Gaston Monnerville to National Assembly.

you know the famous "I 'm French Citizen, despite my skin color" speech,
next to M.L. King jr Speech "I have A Dream",
the most the most important historical speechs for tolerance and equality in society.

got someone picture of Martin Luther King visit to president Monnerville in April 1968 ?
 
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