Editing Charles de Gaulle (section)

=== Assassination attempts ===
{{Main|Petit-Clamart attack}}
[[File:General charles de gaulle visite isles sur suippe 1963.jpg|thumb|Charles de Gaulle's motorcade passes through [[Isles-sur-Suippe]] ([[Marne (department)|Marne]]). The president salutes the crowd from his famous [[Citroën DS]].]]

De Gaulle was targeted for death by the [[Organisation armée secrète]] (OAS), in retaliation for his Algerian initiatives. Several assassination attempts were made on him; the most famous occurred on 22 August 1962, when he and his wife narrowly escaped from an organized machine gun [[ambush]] on their [[Citroën DS#In popular culture|Citroën DS limousine]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Mould|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-FNTmUwfpEC&pg=PA331|year=2011|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-82573-6|page=331}}</ref> The attack was arranged by Colonel [[Jean Bastien-Thiry#Assassination attempt|Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry]] at [[Clamart|Petit-Clamart]].<ref name="Crawley-1969" />{{RP|381}} It is claimed that there were at least 30 assassination attempts against de Gaulle throughout his lifetime.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Willsher |first=Kim |date=22 August 2022 |title=France remembers De Gaulle's close escape depicted in The Day of the Jackal |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/france-charles-de-gaulle-assassination-attempt-the-day-of-the-jackal |access-date=19 March 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ledsom |first=Alex |date=25 June 2018 |title=How Charles de Gaulle Survived Over Thirty Assassination Attempts |url=https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/how-charles-de-gaulle-survived-over-thirty-assassination-attempts/ |access-date=19 March 2023 |website=Culture Trip |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MacIntyre |first=Ben |date=24 July 2021 |title=The Jackal's lessons for would-be assassins |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/article/the-jackals-lessons-for-would-be-assassins-w6hsfssrl |access-date=19 March 2023 |website=[[The Sunday Times]]}}</ref>