De Gaulle may have countenanced a military takeover as a fallback.

Evidence

Soustelle, who says he was in Salan’s office when Dulac returned to render an account of his meeting with de Gaulle, claims that (quoting Dulac) de Gaulle had added “If I do not succeed, alors faites le nécessaire.” Soustelle took this to mean that de Gaulle favoured a military take-over if all else failed. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 908

Categorization

• QUESTION: De Gaulle’s alleged ‘faire le nécessaire’ contradicts his later public stance as pure reconciler—worth checking against other accounts of the Dulac mission.
• XREF: Ties to the chapter’s theme of de Gaulle as summoned arbiter; this revealed signal questions how genuinely non-insurrectionary he was. — connects to: De Gaulle let subordinates voice hard-line positions he would later disavow.; Ultras believed they could depose de Gaulle as they had raised him; Parliamentary instability at home drove plotting for de Gaulle’s return. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 837 (+3 more)

Related

• De Gaulle let subordinates voice hard-line positions he would later disavow. (similarity 0.90)
• De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution. (similarity 0.82)
• Forcing Salan underground may have been a tactical error by de Gaulle (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle refused to repudiate the army’s force while denying dictatorial intent (similarity 0.82)
• Ultras believed they could depose de Gaulle as they had raised him (similarity 0.82)
• Parliamentary instability at home drove plotting for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle was willing to shed blood to preserve the state (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s delayed return secured legitimacy and independence from the army (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s mystical self-assurance blinded him to the F.L.N.’s political character. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle refused to return to power by force, rejecting Napolonic dictatorial paths. (similarity 0.79)
• President Coty’s threat to resign broke the impasse for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s conciliatory gestures angered the army while winning no concessions from the F.L.N. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s political successes could not translate into any Algerian peace progress (similarity 0.79)
• Salan’s public de Gaulle declaration committed the Algerian army against Paris (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Forcing Salan underground may have been a tactical error by de Gaulle #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1280
• De Gaulle sought army success to reconcile it to Algerian independence #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1002
• De Gaulle’s delayed return secured legitimacy and independence from the army #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 911