But he was actually a quite determined adversary of communism in practice. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
And Marchais and the PCF might nominally have gotten behind his first Presidential bid in the mid-seventies, but they did everything they could to make that support as soft as possible (no mobilization, for instance, something the PCF was very much known for) because they knew he was an adversary.
Which, once in government together, they were to see confirmed. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant