The General, Jonathan Fenby.
Explaining his refusal to take cover when German shells were falling around him in 1944, he told an official: 'I have a providential mission to fulfill. I think nothing will happen to me. If it does, I will have been mistaken.'
Even GW thought as much.
Nothing quite like a conviction of divine election to elevate your self-esteem to the height of the job.
For France, De Gaulle was a fortunate lunatic.
When we consider Stalin and Mao and so many others, we see how fortunate.
He was a madman who made much of the world share his delusion that even after 1940 France was a great power.
And he made many of those who were not in the least fooled play along, or at least tolerate his play-acting.
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