戴高乐他的指挥权来自于其宣言

 

戴高乐既没有被任何法定的法国当局任命为自由法国的领导人，也没有通过选举确认其领导地位。

他的指挥权来自于其宣言。

他后来写道："一个执政当局的合法性，来自于它的信念，以及它所激发的信念，即当国家处于危险之中时，它体现了民族的团结和连续性。”[28]

暗指另一个民族危险的时刻，他选择了洛林的两道横杠作为他的运动旗帜--这是殉道的圣女贞德的象征，她以其神秘的幻觉在五个世纪前团结了法国人，从外国占领者手中夺回他们的土地。

戴高乐声称--没有明显的证据支持--他被 "赋予 "了一个永恒的、不可战胜的法国的 "最高权力"，这个权力超越了在其实际边界内可能发生的任何暂时性的悲剧。

 

De Gaulle had neither been appointed to lead Free France by any constituted French authority nor had his leadership been confirmed by elections. His claim to command derived from its proclamation. ‘The legitimacy of a governing power,’ he would later write, ‘derives from its conviction, and the conviction it inspires, that it embodies national unity and continuity when the country is in danger.’[28]

 

Alluding to another moment of national peril, he chose as the banner of his movement the two-barred Cross of Lorraine – the symbol of the martyred Joan of Arc, who with her mystical visions had rallied the French five centuries earlier to retake their land from foreign occupiers. De Gaulle’s claim – with no obvious evidence to support it – was that he was ‘invested’ with the ‘supreme authority’ of an eternal, invincible France that transcended whatever temporal tragedies might have taken place within its physical borders.[29]

 

 

在随后的几个月和几年里，戴高乐将以一种自信和拒绝妥协的态度行事，这使他能够从联盟的领导人--丘吉尔、富兰克林-D-罗斯福甚至斯大林--那里获得让步，他迫使所有这些人考虑到法国自称的对重组后的欧洲的不可或缺性。

 

In the months and years that followed, de Gaulle would conduct himself with a self-assurance and refusal to compromise that allowed him to extract concessions from the (frequently vexed) leaders of the Alliance – Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and even Stalin – all of whom he obliged to reckon with France’s self-proclaimed indispensability to a reconstituted Europe.