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The shock that de Gaulle had predicted would have to happen for him to return to power took place in Algeria in 1958, when for the first time in the nation’s history the army rose against the government and the threat of a civil war loomed large.

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Derfler, L. (2012). De Gaulle. In: Political Resurrection in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027863_4

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