Notes
Notes
1 This text is a revised version of the keynote paper delivered at the conference on “The Fifth Republic at Fifty: France 1958–2008” hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University on February 18–19, 2008.
2 How and why this aim was not achieved is discussed by Helen Drake in her contribution to the present collection.
3 Alistair Cole's article in the present collection gives an excellent account of these changes.