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François Boucq and Nicolas Juncker, humor at attention

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François Boucq and Nicolas Juncker publishes the comic strip “A general, generals” with Le Lombard editions © Le Lombard editions

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The screenwriter Nicolas Juncker and the cartoonist François Boucq combine their talents and tell in comic strip the events that took place around the Algiers putsch of May 13, 1958. A vaudeville-like politico-military comedy, with striking humor, on an episode major event in the history of the Fourth Republic.

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We are in 1958. France is mired in the Algerian war.

In Paris, powerless governments follow one another according to parliamentary upheavals.

After the Battle of Algiers, the city is in turmoil, and the generals seem overwhelmed.

How to get out of the impasse?

Perhaps by a putsch, which would make it possible to recall to power the man of Colombey, this General de Gaulle who keeps himself carefully away from the politicking of the Fourth Republic.

And that is what is happening.

On May 13, a Committee of Public Safety is set up in Algiers, and the insurgents take over the General Government, with the support of several generals.

On May 14, General Massu launched an appeal to de Gaulle.

On the 15th, he said he was “ready to assume the powers of the Republic”.

On the 28th, the government resigned, and on May 29, President Coty appealed to the “most illustrious of the French” who would have the parliament vote for the end of the Fourth Republic, and put the V on the baptismal font.

From this key episode in French political history,

and

have made a loud, hilarious and farcical comic strip, a vaudeville-like satirical comedy with slamming doors and erupting replies.

"A general, generals" is a comic strip published by Le Lombard.

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