¹ Hoffmann, Stanley, “Politique d'abord,” Esprit, xxv (December 1957), p. 813.Google Scholar

² In La France Nouvelle, quoted by Aron, p. 129.

³ See the excellent analysis furnished by Stanley Hoffmann in his earlier study, “Aspects du Régime de Vichy,” Revue Française de Science Politique, VI (January March 1956), pp. 48ff.

⁴ See Lavau, Georges, “Les Classes Moyennes et la Politique,” in Association Française de Science Politique, Partis Politiques et Classes Sociales en France, Paris, 1955, p. 50.Google Scholar

⁵ Until recently French and foreign scholars have paid far more attention to the study of die political Left than of the Right. But see now the pioneering work by Rémond, René, La Droite en France de 1815 à nos jours, Paris, 1954Google Scholar, and various articles by the same author.

⁶ For a full discussion, see my Organized Business in France, Princeton, N.J., 1957. The relationship between Poujade and the Confederation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises is discussed in ibid., pp. 183ff.

⁷ On this point, see Aron, p. 171.

⁸ This is the thesis of the remarkable study by Morazé, Charles, Les Français et la République, Paris, 1956.Google Scholar The historian Morazé joined Premier de Gaulle's staff in the summer of 1958.

⁹ See Hoffmann, “Politique d'abord,” op.cit., p. 829, and the prophetic article by Mendès-France, Pierre, “La Réforme constitutionelle suffira-t-elle?” Le Monde, April 10, 1953.Google Scholar