It [opposing the return of De Gaulle] was typical of him. He always hung on to a position far longer than was reasonable and then made a sudden, bold, reckless leap into the unknown. ... At Vichy, he hesitated, equivocated and agonised for more than a year before committing himself to the Resistance with an excessive, defiant act of bravado at Salle Wagram in Paris.
P. Short, Mitterrand: a study in ambiguity (2013), 197
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