« Regarder Charles de Gaulle, c’était se dire : « c’était donc ça nos pères et nos grands pères » (Philippe Labro).
Deux images ont décidé Claude Pauquet à entreprendre une série sur Charles de Gaulle : d’abord celle de la boîte des fromages de la « Vache qui rit » détournée en une caricature du général de Gaulle dans les années 1960, puis un carton d’invitation envoyé par l’Elysée, servant de marque-page à un ouvrage sur De Gaulle. Son destinataire, la mère du photographe, ancienne déportée à Auschwitz-Birkenau, y est conviée à une messe en l’honneur du Général de Gaulle à Notre Dame de Paris en 1968.
This year 2010, France is getting ready to celebrate a double anniversary : Charles de Gaulle's radio appeal of June 18 1940, urging french people to resist the Nazi occupation, and his death in November 1970.
"For us, having a look at Charles de Gaulle meant :"That's what our father and grandfathers were like" (Philippe Labro).
Two pictures led Claude Pauquet to start a series on Charles De Gaulle: first, the illustration from the package of the "Laughing Cow" cheese, twisted into a caricature of General De Gaulle in the 1960s and then, an invitation card sent by the Elysée and used as a bookmark in a book about De Gaulle. Its addressee, the photographer’s mother, former prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, was invited to a mass in memory of General De Gaulle at Notre-Dame de Paris in 1968.
"For us, having a look at Charles de Gaulle meant :"That's what our father and grandfathers were like" (Philippe Labro).
Two pictures led Claude Pauquet to start a series on Charles De Gaulle: first, the illustration from the package of the "Laughing Cow" cheese, twisted into a caricature of General De Gaulle in the 1960s and then, an invitation card sent by the Elysée and used as a bookmark in a book about De Gaulle. Its addressee, the photographer’s mother, former prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, was invited to a mass in memory of General De Gaulle at Notre-Dame de Paris in 1968.
