The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell.

Evidence

With Algeria lost and its leaders removed, the O.A.S. and its affiliates still writhed on in France like a headless snake under the nominal leadership of Georges Bidault, Colonel Argoud and Captain Sergent. The plastiques continued to explode aimlessly in France, and over a dozen further attempts were made to assassinate de Gaulle. The most spectacular, and failing by a mere hair’s-breadth, took place at Petit-Clamart in August 1962, the month after the lowering of the flag in Algiers, when the car carrying the President and Madame de Gaulle was shot up by a band led by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry. Outraged by the threat to his wife, de Gaulle saw to it that Bastien-Thiry followed the fate of Degueldre, the first senior French officer to pass before the firing squad in many years. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1645

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir settlers plotted repeatedly to kill de Gaulle over Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1299; The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria.; The O.A.S. aimed to make Algeria ungovernable rather than to win it

Related

• Pied noir settlers plotted repeatedly to kill de Gaulle over Algeria (similarity 0.86)
• OAS believed attacking French Communists would trap de Gaulle politically, but miscalculated. (similarity 0.85)
• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.83)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.83)
• The OAS escalated to total war against French authority to force general paralysis (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle relocated his Algerian government to escape pied noir mobs (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle relocated Algeria’s command to Rocher-Noir to escape ultra mobs, but too late. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.79)
• Delouvrier’s withdrawal from Algiers demoralized the insurgents (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly (similarity 0.79)
• France deliberately sacrificed its barbouze operatives to distract the O.A.S. (similarity 0.78)
• Ultras believed they could depose de Gaulle as they had raised him (similarity 0.78)
• Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The O.A.S. aimed to make Algeria ungovernable rather than to win it #expands (0.60)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. #complicates (0.50)