Very early, Charles de Gaulle airport has adopted a precise philosophy in the art of command. In Towards a professional army (1934), he describes the profile of the ideal leader : “a Man strong enough to impose itself, clever enough to seduce, big enough for a large work, such will be the minister, a soldier or a policy that the motherland should the economy next to its strength. “Now what kind of “boss” has he really been to the Elysée palace ?

great men are often of the dwarves in the eyes of their employees. Was it his case ? Many of his aides-de-camp – he preferred the staff militair…

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