As other Europeans railed against Charles de Gaulle's vision of a French-led Europe, many Frenchmen last week were uneasily contemplating De Gaulle's influence on their own society. Since the November election turned the National Assembly into a virtual annexe of the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle has ruled with little parliamentary criticism and with only muted rumblings from France's once rambunctious press.
It has become clear that Le grand Charles has established a personal regime in which, though it is not remotely so autocratic a government as that of Francisco Franco, almost any...
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