The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997

What lay behind Charles de Gaulle's "Vive le Quebec libre!" speech in Montreal on 24th July 1967, Phillippe Rossillion's activities in New Brunswick, Belgium and Africa, and the sinking of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in 1985?

The author argues that the motivation behind behind all these incidents was a policy of underhand imperial ambition on the part of France.

He contends that French nationalists have been at work behind the screen of harmless fraternizing of international francophones in order to stimulate French revolutionary nationalism in Quebec and elsewhere, and that the Gaullist ideology behind these attempts rests on a set of myths about past events, age-old resentments of the English-speaking nations, and a deep-rooted belief in the superiority of France, its language, and its culture.