With his hyperacute sensibility to the deeper movements of the psyche, Rudolph Binion has precisely traced the character of French leadership in both 1940 and 1958. He has found it uncannily congruent. I don’t believe I invalidate his conclusions if I find a Pétain as de Gaulle in his narrative. As Binion says, “Diametric opposites meet.”
David Felix (Sat,) studied this question.