[Political Meeting, Darkly Silhouetted Man before Blurred Audience, Paris]
Arthur Rothstein American
Not on view
This photograph of a political rally in Paris appeared in "Look" magazine in March 1948, in an article entitled, "Can de Gaulle Stop the Communists?" General de Gaulle's role during World War II as leader of the Free French forces in exile, a group that brought the liberation of Paris in 1944, made him an obvious candidate for political office during the turbulent postwar years. After the war, de Gaulle headed two provisional governments, was architect and president of the Fifth Republic (1958-1969), and ended the Algerian war for independence (1962).
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