Letter From Paris: Between Pompidou and CP

If we set aside the events of May 1968 (how aberrant they really were becomes increasingly evident), we may wonder whether it does not take a world war or the jolts of decolonization for France to lose her electoral equilibrium. The moment the political situation returns to normal,traditional structures reappear—not entirely unchanged, but continuing in the same evolutionary pattern that has been developing over a fiftyyear period and that persists, despite many shocks, sometimes in subter...