Figures d’hommes providentiels dans la France de l’entre-deux-guerres

From Bonaparte to de Gaulle, each time the Republic has been confronted by a crisis situation, it has been tempted by a hero capable of delivering it from its misfortunes and uncertainties. Did a France in perpetual crisis need an enlightened dictator in the manner of Mussolini or Hitler ? It was in this way that the syndrome of the providential man polluted the political life of the interwar period.