Word: ried
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitution to the presidency, he gracefully retired. Twelve years and 24 governments later, De Gaulle returned to save France from civil war over Algeria. He eventually gave the rebellious, predominantly Muslim province its independence, earning the animosity of the pied-noir settlers and the rightist supporters of Algérie francaise who plotted to kill him. (One assassination attempt inspired Frederick Forsyth's 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal...