Charles de Gaulle Survived Several Assassination Attempts
The most notorious of his assassination attempts happened in 1962 when 140 bullets were fired into his car as it was being driven from the Elysée Palace to Orly Airport. The automobile was what kept him alive even though the group blew out three tires and killed two bodyguards. The car's suspension system enabled the driver to accelerate out of a front-wheel skid as De Gaulle and his wife dove. The gang wanted to kill De Gaulle because they thought he had betrayed France by allowing Algeria's independence. They were the last people in France to be put to death by firing squad for their crime. De Gaulle continued to be devoted to his Citröen as a result, incidentally.
For a number of reasons, including their reliance on Algeria, their desire for Algeria's rich oil, and the fact that de Gaulle opposed the Vietnam War, stories claim that the CIA actively took part in efforts to overthrow de Gaulle. The most Game of Thrones way to try to kill him, according to rumors, was with a poisoned ring. In order to poison a ring that an elderly soldier would wear to a military event, French rebels turned to the CIA for help. De Gaulle would shake his hand, fall to the ground, and pass away, and the assassin would simply turn around and walk away. The anticipated event never happened. The reason De Gaulle is most well-known outside of France may be attributed to his leadership of a divided France during World War II. Following the invasion of England by the Nazis, he moved there and co-ruled with Churchill.
On his way back, he repeatedly dodged bullets. First, a soldier was shot and killed by another soldier while singing the "Marseillaise" when he was on board a ship. The second occurred not long after, during a celebration honoring the end of World War Two at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. Rapid gunshots was heard in the crowd, which was frequently interpreted as a second assassination attempt. De Gaulle handled each of these situations with composure and grace under duress. Undoubtedly, it wasn’t just the car that saved his life during the assassination attempt in 1962 – he had a great driver that managed to handle the car successfully, too. In other attempts, it was also his driver that saved his life. A year earlier, he had been travelling to his country house with his wife when his Citröen car came alongside a napalm bomb hidden under a sandpile on the road. De Gaulle’s favourite chauffeur, a man called Francis Marroux, rattled straight through the flames after de Gaulle urged him to go faster through the inferno as everything exploded in front of them.
