Le Coup d’État permanent

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Le Coup d’État permanent is a political essay by François Mitterrand that sharply criticizes France’s Fifth Republic and the presidential power structure established by Charles de Gaulle.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
political essay
associatedWith French Socialist Party
author François Mitterrand
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes Charles de Gaulle’s institutional system
Constitution of the Fifth French Republic
presidentialism in France
describes concentration of executive power in the French presidency
weakening of Parliament in the Fifth Republic
genre non-fiction
political literature
hasAuthorRole François Mitterrand as opposition leader to de Gaulle
hasPerspective defense of parliamentary democracy
opposition to Charles de Gaulle
influenced François Mitterrand’s later presidential campaigns
French left-wing criticism of the Fifth Republic
language French
mainSubject Fifth French Republic
criticism of Gaullism
presidential power in France
notableFor expression "coup d’État permanent" to describe Gaullist regime
systematic critique of the Fifth Republic’s institutions
originalLanguage French
politicalPosition left-wing
publicationDate 1964
publisher Plon
setting French politics of the 1960s
subtitle Essai sur les institutions de la Ve République
title Le Coup d’État permanent

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
François Mitterrand
notableWork
Le Coup d’État permanent ("Essai sur les institutions de la Ve République")
subtitle
Le Coup d’État permanent
title

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