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which I think is a very good thing.
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But the most the greatest legacy that he left is probably his style
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that of the monarchical president the monarchial president
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the king of the republic the idea that he represented France in a way
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that the Sun King had represented France
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towering over France and that overriding the interests of
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those he considered to be talkers mere posers or talkers
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including technocrats the kinds of people who had emerged in part out
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of World War Two and out of the Fourth Republic.
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And so he left unsolved the question of how you educate France
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for a new society how you train and modernize people.
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What do you do with the poisonous relations between a very powerful