 Thorez took Jeannette's side in condemning neo-Malthusian conjectures.After Thorez died in 1964, she was often very critical of the new direction taken by general secretary Waldeck Rochet, and decided to resign from the Politburo in 1968 after Rochet expressed disapproval for the intervention of Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring.On the same occasion she ended her political career, nevertheless remaining an activist of the base, renewing her Communist Party membership until her death.