Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Un Attentat. Petit-Clamart, 22 août 1962

The writer Frederick Forsyth, formerly Paris correspondent for The Observer, once recalled that the Paris press corps spent the summer of 1962 waiting for someone to take a shot at de Gaulle. They stopped waiting on the evening of 22 August. As the General’s Citroën DS sped from the Élysée through the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on its way to Villacoublay aerodrome, a group of thirteen men led by the Air Force lieutenant-colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry opened fire on the presidential convo

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