Item : Can we say that, from 1959 to 1969, general de Gaulle has founded in France a liberalism of State ?
Jean-Claude Casanova : De Gaulle was above all a pragmatist. He discovers, coming to power in 1958, a catastrophic economic situation : the index of consumer prices increased by 16% in one year, which lowers the real wages of 3 %, industrial production declines of 3 %, the product within a merchant is declined by 0.6 %. In addition to this, high debt, a large deficit in international trade and not foreign exchange reserves. De Gaulle takes alor...
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