Reaction of passers-by in the street including veterans on the death of General de Gaulle: "it is a very big loss for the nation", "it was a great man".
Reactions of the Bretons following the speech of General de Gaulle on 2 February 1969 in Quimper, where he announced the referendum on the bill on the creation of regions and the renovation of the Senate. The President also said a few words in Breton during his speech that did not leave them indifferent.
In the provinces, passers-by give their opinion on General de Gaulle’s speech on the Ben Barka affair. Most of the French interviewees trust the general, while others find his statements "nebulous", and think that "the government is in on it".
Reactions to the speech of General De GAULLE, on the evening of 23 April, calling on French soldiers and civilians to mobilize against the putschists in Algiers and decreeing a state of emergency. Most of the French questioned are convinced by his speech "I hope that all the French will be behind de Gaulle, it will perhaps avoid a civil war". Some regret the government’s laxity regarding the flight of the leaders at the time of the trial of the barricades.
Microtrottoir de Parisiens who have just learned with emotion the death of General de Gaulle. An old resistant declares: "He was a good person". Another elderly woman evokes her honesty, while a third outbid: "He had his faults like everyone else but he was a man of integrity and who loved France!". A man describes "a very great Frenchman who gave us a certain prestige that we no longer had". A lady learning of the death evokes "a great loss!". A man says: "This is a great misfortune for France, I am blackfoot and yet I have a lot of pain". A woman points out: "Never in our history have we had such a huge and pure man". For a veteran, "He was the torch in 1940 when people met under the German boot".
The population was asked about General de Gaulle’s speech on the events of May 1968 and the holding of a referendum. A sense of disappointment prevails: it is felt that the general expressed himself too late and too softly, without providing answers to the problems.
Microtrottoir in Paris, after General De GAULLE’s speech on self-determination in Algeria. Most of the passers-by interviewed are satisfied with the general’s speech, some say they are for French Algeria.