1.   He was also utterly allergic to the suggestion that de Gaulle or anybody else could have legitimacy until the French people had expressed their preferences in democratic fashion.

2.   He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a democrat at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic.

3.   During the Occupation he had repeatedly declared that he would not anticipate the will of the French people.

4.   He still insisted that he alone was responsible to the French people for the actions of his government and would remain so until general elections could be held.

5.   The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views.

6.   After five and a half years of intense activity the burdens of leading the French people had worn de Gaulle down.

7.   Throughout the RPF years, he took his message to the French people in person.

8.   This left de Gaulle in the impossible situation of trying to keep up a wartime psychology, while the French people wanted to live a peacetime existence.

9.   This referendum would determine once and for all whether or not the French people supported his self-determination policy.

10.   He told the French people that Algeria cost France too much and was not worth holding on to.