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power but wanted to be a great power.
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And so that was essential in the way that de Gaulle viewed France's
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role and personally his role that France would maintain its
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influence in what they called in those days the Third World
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tiers monde that were had just been freed from
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the colonial imperial experience but were economically disadvantaged.
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And that France's historical mission of carrying civilization
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French civilization the civilizing mission
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et cetera et cetera would continue in that context.
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Now you even saw this very recently in the case of the Bulgarian nurses
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who had been in Libya accused of it's a terribly complicated case--of
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infecting Libyan children with HIV