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    Niger (redirect from Republique du Niger)
    1922. Since obtaining independence in 1960, Niger has experienced five coups d'état and four periods of military rule. Niger's seventh and most recent constitution...
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    needed] But through SAC, he was considered to be involved in various coups d'état in Africa during the 1960s. Nevertheless, Foccart retained his functions...
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    him in order to inform him of and request his presence in a Tunisian Coup d'État Less than twenty days after the conclusion of the Bizerte crisis and...
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    Trinquier, Le coup d’État du 13 mai. Esprit Nouveau, 1962. Trinquier denounces the foundation of the French Fifth Republic as a coup d'état. Roger Trinquier...
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  • Paul Gondjout (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Gondjout filed a motion of censure he was charged with attempting a coup d'état and sentenced to two years in prison. Following his release, M'ba appointed...
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    Léon M'ba (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Jean-Hilaire Aubame briefly assumed the office of president through a coup d'état in February 1964, but order was restored days later when the French intervened...
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    Jean-Hilaire Aubame (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    during a 1964 coup d'état against M'ba. However, the coup was toppled three days later, and although he did not participate in the coup's planning, Aubame...
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    supreme commander of the armed forces (1992), co-leader of the 1991 coup d'état. Adrian Schiller, 60, English actor (Victoria, The Last Kingdom, The...
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    Vietnam 1958: A popular revolt in Venezuela against military dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez culminates in a civic-military coup d'état. 1958: The Iraqi...
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    confusion continued and peaked before the 1980 coup d'état. The 1 May holiday was cancelled after the coup d'état. Still, demonstrations continued with small...
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    culminated in the Thammasat University massacre in October 1976.: 548–9  A coup d'état on that day brought Thailand a new ultra-right government, which cracked...
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    Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    Hưng, he became "suspicious ... secretive ... and ever watchful for a coup d'état against him." His increasing isolation had begun to deny him "the services...
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    Maximilien Robespierre (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019. L'Ami du peuple, ou le Publiciste parisien, 7 mai 1791 Robespierre, Maximilien (12...
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    French by the 1852 French Second Empire referendum after the French coup d'état of 1851. In the 1860s, influenced by Ismael Urbain, he introduced what...
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    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (category People involved in the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt)
    aftermath of the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, a groundswell of national unity and consensus emerged for cracking down on the coup plotters with a National...
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    voulait être roi. l'Archipel. p. 224. ISBN 978-2-8098-1873-4. "Arrêté du 15 mai 2012 portant nomination à la présidence de la République". Archived from...
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    Chad (redirect from République du Tchad)
    Chad remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d'état. Chad ranks the 2nd lowest in the Human Development Index, with 0.394...
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    retaining close ties to the army and the pieds-noirs. By early 1958, he had organized a coup d'état, bringing together dissident army officers and pieds-noirs...
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    Maurice Yaméogo (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    power. On 5 August 1967, his son Hermann Yaméogo attempted to launch a coup d'état to free him, which failed. After these events, Charles de Gaulle boycotted...
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    with the West, especially France. Its stability was diminished by a coup d'état in 1999 and two civil wars—first between 2002 and 2007 and again during...
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    Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (category 18th-century coups d'état)
    The insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 (French: Journées du 31 mai et du 2 juin 1793), during the French Revolution, started after the Paris commune...
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  • of Staff to seize power in the 1965 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état. Although Mobutu succeeded in taking power, his position was soon threatened...
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    when members of the Legion were accused of being implicated in a failed coup d'état during the Algerian War. Today it is still a popular Legion "chant" sung...
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    François Mitterrand (category Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    left-wing opponent to Charles de Gaulle in publishing Le Coup d'État permanent (The permanent coup, 1964), which criticized de Gaulle's personal power, the...
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    followed two decades of authoritarian rule after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. The collapse of the military-imposed two-party system that pitted the...
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    Éric Zemmour (category 1958 births)
    noir de la droite, Grasset et Fasquelle ISBN 978-2-246-56251-1 1998: Le Coup d'État des juges, Grasset et Fasquelle ISBN 978-2-246-52551-6 1998: Une certaine...
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  • Jacobins and he returned to Robespierrism. In May 1796, he led a failed coup d'état with neo-Robespierrists to attempt to return the republic to the Montagnard...
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  • de Renseignement intelligence agency described the organization of a coup d'état by certain "financial networks and far-right organizations", naming among...
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    children: Crown Prince Bảo Long (4 January 1936 – 28 July 2007), Princess Phương Mai (1 August 1937 – 16 January 2021), Princess Phương Liên (born 3 November...
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    a coup d'état, replacing him with Boumédiène as head of state. On 19 June 1965, Houari Boumédiène deposed Ahmed Ben Bella in a military coup d'état that...
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