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Referenced when discussing de Gaulle's famous opening line: 'It's the first line of his war memoirs. All my life I've had a certain idea of France.' This is clearly a book reference as it explicitly mentions his memoirs.

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Referenced when comparing de Gaulle's appearance to Julius Caesar in the comic: 'I think he also looks like Julius Caesar in Asterix the Gaul.' This is a reference to the famous French comic book series.

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Referenced when discussing Pompidou's cultural credentials: 'Pompidou, in very French style, is also the author of an anthology of French poetry... which is still used, I think, in some French schools. The Pompidou anthology.'

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Referenced when discussing Giscard d'Estaing's notorious later life: 'he famously, notoriously, wrote a kind of semi-pornographic novel about him and Princess Diana, who appears as Patricia, Princess of Cardiff.' The hosts mention the character name 'Jacques-Henri Lambétis' as a thinly-veiled self-portrait.