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Sarkozy blithely ignored the limit and spoke for twenty, bringing the hall to its feet when he declared, "To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!"

Waiting for Sarko 2005

Sarkozy blithely ignored the limit and spoke for twenty, bringing the hall to its feet when he declared, "To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!"

Waiting for Sarko 2005

Alliot-Marie, a Gaullist stalwart, had fought to retain her job, saying as late as Saturday that she would be in Geneva later this week for an international meeting on Libya.

Sarkozy fires foreign minister over vacation at Tunisian resort 2011

Similarly, it was Nicolas Sarkozy's determination to re-establish his Gaullist credentials ahead of next year's French presidential election that led him to reject any further handover of sovereignty to Brussels and led him to push for the new fiscal rules to be enshrined in a new inter-governmental treaty instead.

Needed: Another EU Crisis Summit Simon Nixon 2011

France has in the past four years shed its Gaullist complexes and found a fresh voice that's not reflexively anti-American or ornery.

French Politics After l'Affaire Strauss-Kahn Matthew Kaminski 2011

Alliot-Marie, a Gaullist stalwart, had fought to retain her job, saying as late as Saturday that she would be in Geneva later this week for an international meeting on Libya.

Sarkozy fires foreign minister over vacation at Tunisian resort 2011

Of course, Bernadotte has one of the best Gaullist-type quotes of all time:

Matthew Yglesias » Kristol Complicates Napoleon Metaphors 2010

Former prime minister Dominique de Villepin – who was cleared of attempting to smear Sarkozy over allegations of money laundering in the long-running Clearstream scandal – has also announced his plans to run as an "independent" Gaullist candidate in what some media commentators have already described as attempted "political murder".

Nicolas Sarkozy: Is France falling in love again? | Peter Beaumont 2011

This is why French leaders instinctively adopt a Gaullist approach and emphasise inter-governmental agreements within the EU, as Sarkozy had tried to do in his initial ideas for imposing sanctions on errant eurozone members.

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel dominate EU in an uneasy alliance 2011

He's had that picture on his wall since he was 14; he says it's what inspired him to become a politician, a Gaullist and a committed European.

Bringing Old Lessons to New Europe Stephen Fidler 2011