FRANCE: The Symbol; FRANCE: The Symbol. 14 minute read. TIME. May 29, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4 (See Cover) Among the ruined olive groves and the drab, pathetic rubble of small Italian towns, exultant ...

As the first anniversary of his Fifth Republic rolled around last week, France's Charles de Gaulle was vacationing in the south at the 11th century abbey of La Celle in Provence. It was either a ...