Paris-based parachutist plotting bent de Gaulle toward seizing power.

Evidence

On the morning of the 27th the crisis reached its peak. Parisians looked up nervously at every plane passing overhead; Simone de Beauvoir had Freudian nightmares about a python dropping on her from the sky; and in the Ministry of the Interior Jules Moch received an intelligence report that “Résurrection” was now scheduled to take place on the following night. He ordered his C.R.S. force to prepare to defend government buildings. Meanwhile, young para officers were arriving in the capital in civilian clothes, carrying suspiciously heavy suitcases. Among their targets was the kidnapping of Jules Moch himself, and with them—on his own mission—came Lagaillarde. Then, early in the afternoon, de Gaulle—apparently as a result of the mounting pressures upon him—issued a communiqué announcing that he had begun the “regular process” of forming a legitimate republican government, and condemning any threat to public order. At the same time he sent a signal to Salan couched in even more categoric terms, and astutely sent via official channels, in which he called for the dropping of all thoughts of “Résurrection”. … I want to be summoned as an arbiter coming at the demand of the whole country, to take over direction of the country so as to spare it useless rendings. I must appear as the man of reconciliation and not as the champion of one of the factions currently confronting each other. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 899

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘Resurrection’ plan as a lever de Gaulle used to get himself summoned legitimately rather than seizing power himself is a rich angle on how apparent threats produce legitimate outcomes.
• XREF: connects to: The Algiers leaders planned a para airborne coup against Paris in May 1958.; President Coty’s threat to resign broke the impasse for de Gaulle’s return.; The bazooka plot aimed to install a government of national unity behind de Gaulle

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• The bazooka plot aimed to install a government of national unity behind de Gaulle (similarity 0.85)
• President Coty’s threat to resign broke the impasse for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.82)
• The Algiers leaders planned a para airborne coup against Paris in May 1958. (similarity 0.82)
• Parliamentary instability at home drove plotting for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.79)