Editing Charles de Gaulle (section)

=== Retirement ===
[[File:President Nixon and staff members with President Charles DeGaulle of France - NARA - 194610.jpg|thumb|Newly inaugurated U.S. president [[Richard Nixon]] visiting President De Gaulle one month before De Gaulle's retirement]]

De Gaulle retired once again to his nine-acre country estate, [[La Boisserie]] ("The Woodland Glade"), in [[Colombey-les-Deux-Églises]], 120 miles southeast of Paris. There the General, who often described old age as a "shipwreck",<ref name="TIME-23 November 1970">''TIME'', 23 November 1970</ref> continued his memoirs, dictated to his secretary from notes. To visitors, de Gaulle said, "I will finish three books, if God grants me life." ''The Renewal'', the first of three planned volumes to be called ''Memoirs of Hope'', was quickly finished and immediately became the fastest seller in French publishing history.