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  • noun Plural form of Gaullist.

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Examples

  • We're not socialists, we're Gaullists, she said, referring to the political ideology based on the thought of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, a leader of the Resistance and later president.

    New Leader of Right-Wing Party Aims to Shake Up France Gabriele Parussini 2011

  • The historical Gaullists did not admit his leadership, however, and worried about his anglophile proclivities.

    sarkozy – cia – rothschilds – mafia 2008

  • It is then that tensions, similar to those which rocked the Gaullist party 30 years earlier, broke out between the historical Gaullists and the financial right wing incarnated by Balladur.

    sarkozy – cia – rothschilds – mafia 2008

  • It was all very well to be in with the Gaullists, but times have changed; when the two largest delegations in your group are the Italian post-fascists [Alleanza Nazionale] and the Kaczyński twins [the Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwość - Law and Justice], you may want to start thinking about moving.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Tim Roll-Pickering 2009

  • After 1945, the French in general and the Gaullists in particular needed to promote a myth of "self-liberation" for obvious reasons.

    Capsule Reviews Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • It was all very well to be in with the Gaullists, but times have changed; when the two largest delegations in your group are the Italian post-fascists [Alleanza Nazionale] and the Kaczyński twins [the Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwość - Law and Justice], you may want to start thinking about moving.

    How long before we're back in the European People's Party? Tim Roll-Pickering 2009

  • Deschamps continued to hold office under the Vichy government from 1939 to 1943, though he was not of its politics, until the Gaullists removed him from office.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The French Communist Party's agreement with De Gaulle to allow a parliamentary solution to the social crisis was a glaring example of the horizon of identity (the desire that someone be in control of a central State bureaucracy) that allowed an opposition (of the Gaullists and the Communists as rivals for control of the State) to shackle difference.

    Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008

  • Deschamps continued to hold office under the Vichy government from 1939 to 1943, though he was not of its politics, until the Gaullists removed him from office.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Forget the video confession of a former bagman, who died of cancer in 1999 after laying out in detail the way millions of francs in kickbacks from public construction projects were divvied up among the country's various political parties, including Chirac's Gaullists, the Socialists and even the Communists.

    Europe's Dirty Secret 2007

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