And a little about Gen. Raoul Salan
From the Encyclopaedia Britannica:
He was posted to Algeria in 1956, and in 1958 he was one of the coterie of right-wing military and political figures who rose up against the French Fourth Republic and called de Gaulle to power, thereby establishing the Fifth Republic. When de Gaulle slowly moved toward giving Algeria its independence, Salan felt himself betrayed and was one of four generals who led an abortive military insurrection in Algeria on April 22, 1961. When the coup collapsed four days later, Salan went into hiding and directed the OAS's campaign of terrorism and sabotage in France and Algeria. He was not captured by the French authorities until a year later, on April 20, 1962. In May he was tried for treason and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Salan was freed in 1968 in an amnesty, and his full rank and pension were restored to him by the French president François Mitterrand in 1982.