Dickinson College Dickinson Scholar Student Honors Theses By Year Student Honors Theses 5-19-2019 Charles de Gaulle and the “Forever Abandoned”: Conceptualizations of Empire and French Identity Julien Herpers Dickinson College Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.dickinson.edu/student_honors Part of the European History Commons, and the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Herpers, Julien, "Charles de Gaulle and the “Forever Abandoned”: Conceptualizations of Empire and French Identity" (2019). Dickinson College Honors Theses. Paper 318. This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Dickinson Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Charles de Gaulle and the “Forever Abandoned:” Conceptualizations of Empire and French Identity by Julien Charles Herpers Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Honors Requirements for the History Department Dickinson College Professor Regina Sweeney, Supervisor Professor Christopher Bilodeau, Reader Carlisle, Pennsylvania May, 2019 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................3 Chapter I: The maréchal, de Gaulle, and Empire, 1919-1939 .............................................20 Chapter II: Fractured Identities and First Encounters, 1940 ................................................33 Chapter III: Imagining the French Empire’s Postwar Seat at the Table, 1941-1942 ..........54