Czechoslovak diplomacy and its evaluation of De Gaulle's policy of grandeur between 1958 and 1969

Czechoslovak-French relations developed gradually since the early 1960s. At the time Charles de Gaulle was the president of France. He enforced the politics of grandeur, according to which France had to restore its superpower position while Czechoslovakia was one of the satellites of the Soviet Union. Based on the research of historical sources with elements of qualitative content analysis of documents from the Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, I answer my question on how the phenomena related to de Gaulle's politics of grandeur between 1958 and 1969 were evaluated by Czechoslovak diplomacy. The archival documents show that Czechoslovak diplomacy was interested in French policy towards disarmament in the early 1960s when talks were held on this topic in Geneva, in which Czechoslovakia was directly involved. French rejection of disarmament agreements was always negatively assessed by Czechoslovak diplomacy, but over the time it ceased to be an obstacle to the development of mutual relations. The evaluation of French politics towards the countries of the West was full of contradictions. France's attitude towards the United States, whose influence in Europe was France trying to limit, was positively assessed, but France's rapprochement with West Germany was viewed..