Gaullist

[goh-list, gaw-]

noun

1. a supporter of the political principles of Charles de Gaulle.

2. a French person who supported the French resistance movement against the Nazi occupation in World War II.

Gaullist

/ ˈɡɔː-, ˈɡəʊlɪst /

noun

1. a supporter of Gaullism

adjective

1. of, characteristic of, supporting, or relating to Gaullism

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gaullist¹

From the French word Gaullistes, dating back to 1940–45. See Charles de Gaulle, -ist

Example Sentences

His beginnings were in the Chistian Democrat tradition of post-war politics, which in general supported but kept a distance from the larger Gaullist component of the French right, led from the late 1970s by Jacques Chirac.

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He was there to collect funds for the approaching French presidential election on behalf of the centre-right Gaullist candidate Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris at the time.

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And in Paris, he inherited the mantle of the legendary Jacques Foccart – the Gaullist who oversaw the post-colonial Françafrique system, with its arrangements of influence and protection, markets, materials, muscle… and money.

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Soon after arriving in Paris, he praised France, whose president, Emmanuel Macron, has often made the Gaullist point that Europe “must never be a vassal of the United States.”

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“He is a socialist trade unionist who once worked for a Gaullist prime minister who describes himself as a closet Christian Democrat. He is a practicing Catholic who takes moral stances and claims not to be ambitious; yet he is a crafty political tactician who enjoys power and has held the Commission in an iron grip. He is a patriotic Frenchman with a vision of a unified Europe.”

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