Rudolph Binion has written a fascinating article on the parallels between de Gaulle’s destruction of the Fourth Republic and Pétain’s destruction of the Third Republic 18 years earlier. Binion examines de Gaulle’s personal psychology in order to illuminate his political actions in 1958. Binion combines the personal motivations of de Gaulle and his political action.
Daniel Klenbort (Sat,) studied this question.