The group had been given the missions of collecting arms for the Liberation, distributing pro-Gaullist propaganda, inciting German draft resisters and French citizens avoiding the Reichsarbeitsdienst labor corps.
He then met with more than 2,000 prisoners, among whom the French Navy officer Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, the Communist Gabriel Péri and the Gaullist Edmond Michelet.
A part of the Rally of the French People (RPF), the Gaullist party, joined the majority in opposing the leadership of Charles de Gaulle, who then retired.
However, conservative voters sanctioned the center-right parties, preferring to vote for the Gaullist party.
However some centrists refused to integrate into this group and joined the Gaullist Party, which became the Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic (UD5)
The Gaullist Union for the Defence of the Republic became the first party in the French Republic's history to obtain an absolute parliamentary majority.
In order to end the May 1968 crisis, President Charles de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and his party, the Gaullist Party Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), obtained the absolute majority of the seats.
Because the Gaullist UDR was the largest party in the pro-Giscard majority in the Assembly, Giscard chose Jacques Chirac to lead the cabinet.
However, most of Charles de Gaulle's followers were conservative, and after his death, traditional left-wing voters ceased voting Gaullist and figures identified with the Gaullist left such as Jacques Chaban-Delmas were gradually marginalised.
This plan for a merger between Gaz de France and Suez came under fire from the whole of the political left, which feared the loss of one of the last ways of preventing the price rises experienced over the previous three years, and by the social Gaullists and trade unions.
Chrétien had initially dismissed Chirac as a “right-wing Gaullist” and had been publicly furious when Chirac announced on Larry King Live that France would be one of the first countries to recognize an independent Quebec.
Singular by its composition, this convoy of 230 women, Resistance members, communists, Gaullist wives of resistance members, was illustrated in La Marseillaise by crossing the entrance of the camp of Birkenau; only 49 of these 230 women would return from the camps after the war.
A Gaullist, she has a very critical eye on the driftage of the Fifth Republic, losing her regal substance such as a strong state or a centralized power because of decentralization and Maastricht Treaty which monopolizes the sovereignty and so transforms France as an area of the European continent and not a free nation.
One year later, a Gaullist party was founded under the name of Rally of the French People (Rassemblement du peuple français or RPF).
Furthemore, the abandonment of the Gaullist doctrine was criticized by Charles Pasqua and Philippe Séguin.