Nothing new had been said, not a single concession offered; yet it was as if, after an appallingly long week of perplexity and the nightmare of civil war, or fascism, here was the catharsis, the clear call to duty, that all Frenchmen had unknowingly been waiting for. Once again de Gaulle had got his timing superbly right.

SEED: An angle on how environmental conditions incline historical outcomes and are later narrated as symbolic. Could explore the rhetorical use of weather in history.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1120