ABSTRACT
The gaullist organizations are certainly numerous. The rational division of these organizations into categories, according to the work they do, does not satisfactorily explain all the gaullist associations; conflict of opinion cause rivalry between organizations which could otherwise combine since they fulfil the same role. The tragedy of the gaullist left is that it always feels a desperate need to justify itself: to the left, that it is genuinely left wing; to the gaullists, that it is more gaullist than all of them put together, apart from General de Gaulle himself of course, and he claims that he is not a gaullist. The most ‘gaullian’ of the gaullists, those most sensitive to the ex-servicemen spirit and to a certain gaullist sentimentality, feel slightly frustrated in this ‘modern’, ‘efficient’ party which is being built. The ex officio members of the executive committee are the president of the Assembly, the president of the gaullist parliamentary parties and all former gaullist prime ministers.
