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• Algiers putsch of 1961  + (<font face="{{{font}}}">“An insurrec … <font face="{{{font}}}">“An insurrectionary power has established itself in Algeria by a military ''[[pronunciamento]]''... This power has an appearance: a quartet of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of officers, partisan, ambitious and fanatical. This group and this quartet possess an expedient and limited knowledge of things. But they only see and understand the Nation and the world distorted by their delirium. Their enterprise leads directly towards a national disaster ... I forbid any Frenchman, and first of all any soldier, to execute a single one of their orders ... In the face of the misfortune which hangs over the country and the threat to the Republic, having taken advice from the [[Constitutional Council of France|Constitutional Council]], the Prime Minister, the president of the Senate, the president of the [[French National Assembly|National Assembly]], I have decided to invoke article 16 of the Constitution [on the state of emergency and full special powers given to the head of state in case of a crisis]. Starting from this day, I will take, directly if the need arises, the measures which seem to me demanded by circumstances ... Frenchwomen, Frenchmen! Assist me!”mstances ... Frenchwomen, Frenchmen! Assist me!”)

• Algiers putsch of 1961  +