Empire of the Clouds story of the R101 airship, which crashed on its maiden voyage in northern France on 5 October 1930. The song was written entirely by the band's lead vocalist, Bruce Dickinson, who initially intended it to be about "World War I fighter airplanes;" Dickinson abandoned the idea after using the same theme for the song "Death or Glory," also from "The Book of Souls". At the time of recording, Dickinson was reading "a big, sort of encyclopedic crash report" of the R101, entitled "To Ride the Storm", which gave him the idea for the song's eventual subject. Dickinson describes it as
Gaullism, a way forward for France motion. Gaullism, a way forward for France Gaullism, a way forward for France ("Le Gaullisme, une voie d'avenir pour la France") is a recognized movement within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). It was created in 2012 to represents Gaullists within the UMP, and it is led by Michèle Alliot-Marie, Roger Karoutchi, Henri Guaino and Patrick Ollier. As a motion for the November 2012 congress, the Gaullists placed fourth with 12.31% of the motions vote, a poor result for a movement which aimed at representing one of the main historical families of the French right. The movement's leaders are