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48. Jean Chariot, L’Union pour la Nouvelle République: Etude du pouvoir au
sein d'un parti politique (“Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques,"
No. 153. Paris, 1967), pp. 207-254; 296-304. Hereinafter: L'U.N.R.
49. Le Gaullisme, Passionante Aventure, p. 126.
50. So I was told by a young UNR deputy, who undoubtedly would prefer to go
unnamed.
51. Chariot, L'U.N.R., pp. 191, 204-205.
52. As against 11 percent who did not want new men and 22 percent who did not
respond. Mattei Dogan in Elections 1958, p. 278, citing a national survey taken in
September, 1958, by the Institut Français d’Opinion Publique (IFOP).
53. Elections 1958, Table VII, p. 262.
54. Ibid., and Dogan in Le Référendum d'octobre et les élections de novembre
1962 (“Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques,” No. 142. Paris,
1965), p. 430. Hereinafter: Elections 1962.
55. Dogan notes, however, that the average age of first election was higher in
1958 than it had been under the Fourth Republic, when half of all deputies (as
opposed to less than a third of the new UNR deputies in 1958) were first elected
before the age of 40. Ibid., p. 271.
56. Computed — for deputies from France proper only — from République
Française, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Annuaire
Statistique de la France, 1964, LXII, No. 12 (Paris, 1964), 121.
57. Elections 1962, p. 432.
58. LM, February 7, 1968.
59. Ibid.
60. Data following are from Dogan, Elections 1962, p. 431.
61. François Goguel, “Les élections législatives des 5 et 12 mars 1967,” Revue
française de science politique, XVIL No. 3 (June, 1967). 438. The figure for 1958 is
for the UNR alone. Those for 1962 and 1967 include votes for “divers gaullistes” as
well as for non-UNR members carrying the official Fifth Republic label (see below).
Since there were Fifth Republic candidates in all districts in 1967, but not in 1962
(when 25 districts had no official Gaullist candidate), the total “restricted” Gaullist
electorate was approximately the same size in those two elections.
62. A study sponsored by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
(FNSP) and carried out by IFOP. Reported in Elections 1958, p. 158.
63. Elections 1962, p. 230. Although studies of the March, 1967, elections were
not yet available for analysis here, a national survey conducted in December. 1966,
revealed that the proportion who intended to vote Gaullist on the first ballot was
only very slightly greater among older voters. See M. Fichelet, R. Fichelet, G.
Michclat and M. Simon. Premiers Résultats d'un programme de recherche en psy-
chosociologie politique: Les Français et le Parti communiste, a reprint from Cahiers
du Communisme, Xll (December, 1967), and 1 (January. 1968). p. 14.
64. Elections 1958, p. 158; and Elections 1962, p. 228. For similar figures (52
percent women — 48 percent men) as of a few months before the 1967 election, see
M. Fichelet et al., Premiers Résultats, p. 19.
65. Elections 1962, p. 202.
66. Sondages, No. 4 (1965), 36.
67. In support of this thesis, IFOP polls found that slightly more women than
men (14% to 10.5%) shifted to de Gaulle between ballots of the presidential election.
Sondages, No. 4 (1965), 21 and 36.