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    not have enough to react before the ensuing crisis of May 1958. On 13 May 1958, the Coup d'état in Algiers put an abrupt end to these attempts at constitutional...
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  • extreme-right-wing political party the Mouvement populaire du 13-Mai (MP-13) following the coup d'état of 13 May 1958. Martel was born in Algiers. His family came from...
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    Republic. But through SAC, he was considered to be involved in various coups d'état in Africa during the 1960s. Nevertheless, Foccart retained his functions...
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    him in order to inform him of and request his presence in a Tunisian coup d'état. Less than twenty days after the conclusion of the Bizerte crisis and...
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    establishment of the Fifth Republic, likening it to the 1851 French coup d'état by Louis Napoléon Bonaparte. Mitterrand would publish many of his criticisms...
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    Niger (redirect from Republique du Niger)
    1922. Since obtaining independence in 1960, Niger has experienced five coups d'état and four periods of military rule. Niger's seventh and most recent constitution...
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    Jean-Hilaire Aubame (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    during a 1964 coup d'état against M'ba. However, the coup was toppled three days later, and although he did not participate in the coup's planning, Aubame...
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    officer, chief of staff (1964–1967), participant of the 1965 coup d'état and leader of the 1967 coup attempt. José Castillejo [ca], 28, Spanish footballer (CF...
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    Léon M'ba (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Jean-Hilaire Aubame briefly assumed the office of president through a coup d'état in February 1964, but order was restored days later when the French intervened...
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  • Paul Gondjout (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Gondjout filed a motion of censure he was charged with attempting a coup d'état and sentenced to two years in prison. Following his release, M'ba appointed...
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    Trinquier, Le coup d’État du 13 mai. Esprit Nouveau, 1962. Trinquier denounces the foundation of the French Fifth Republic as a coup d'état. Roger Trinquier...
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    to 1958. Martin was le grande V supported by generals Paul Cherrière (le grande A) and Lionel-Max Chassin (le grande B). They planned a coup d'état against...
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  • Congo military averts 'attempted coup'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved May 20, 2024. "Shooting in Kinshasa is a failed coup d'état, says Congolese army". Le Monde...
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    Vietnam 1958: A popular revolt in Venezuela against military dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez culminates in a civic-military coup d'état. 1958: The Iraqi...
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    coup.1 Then, the army dissolved Thaksin's party with a coup d'état in 2006 and banned over a hundred of its executives from politics. After the coup,...
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  • particularly after the massacre of Oran the same year. In May 1958, in Algiers, a coup was carried out jointly by Pierre Lagaillarde, who was the sitting...
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    Maximilien Robespierre (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019. L'Ami du peuple, ou le Publiciste parisien, 7 mai 1791 Robespierre, Maximilien (12...
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    Purge of the French Civil Service (1879–1884) (category Conseil d'État (France))
    Cherrier, Emmanuel (2018). "Seize-Mai 1877: est-ce un coup d'état ?". Le Seize-mai revisité. Histoire et littérature du Septentrion (IRHiS) (in French)...
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    signing of the treaty, however, was interrupted by the August Coup—an attempted coup d'état by hardline members of the government and the KGB who sought...
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  • September 1980 when General Kenan Evren led a coup d'état. According to Daniele Ganser, at the time of the coup, there were some 1,700 Grey Wolves branches...
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    minister with the support of President Óscar Carmona after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état. The military of 1926 saw themselves as the guardians of the nation in...
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    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (category People involved in the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt)
    aftermath of the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, a groundswell of national unity and consensus emerged for cracking down on the coup plotters with a National...
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  • Jacobins and he returned to Robespierrism. In May 1796, he led a failed coup d'état with neo-Robespierrists to attempt to return the republic to the Montagnard...
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    Maurice Yaméogo (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    power. On 5 August 1967, his son Hermann Yaméogo attempted to launch a coup d'état to free him, which failed. After these events, Charles de Gaulle boycotted...
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    Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (category 18th-century coups d'état)
    The insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (French: Journées du 31 mai et du 2 juin 1793, lit. 'Day of 31 May to 2 June 1793'), during the French Revolution...
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  • supreme commander of the armed forces (1992), co-leader of the 1991 coup d'état. Adrian Schiller, 60, English actor (Victoria, The Last Kingdom, The...
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    retaining close ties to the army and the pieds-noirs. By early 1958, he had organized a coup d'état, bringing together dissident army officers and pieds-noirs...
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    François Mitterrand (category Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    left-wing opponent to Charles de Gaulle in publishing Le Coup d'État permanent (The permanent coup, 1964), which criticized de Gaulle's personal power, the...
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  • Veilleuse". Petit Bastiais. 2 April 1958. Registre d'état civil de Bastia. Registre d'état civil de Talasani. Archives du Département de la Haute-Corse. "In...
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    Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    Hưng, he became "suspicious ... secretive ... and ever watchful for a coup d'état against him." His increasing isolation had begun to deny him "the services...
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