Maurice Challe

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Maurice Challe
Général d’Armée
Battles/warsWorld War II
Algerian War
Algiers putsch 1961

Maurice Challe (5 September 1905 – 18 January 1979) was a French general during the

Algiers putsch
.

A native of

De Gaulle's return to power.[1]
Challe initially served his conscription service in the infantry and was later commissioned as a pilot officer in military aviation, going on to become commander of the French Air Force in Algeria between 1955 and 1960.

In July 1956, Egyptian leader

French Minister of Labor Albert Gazier. The two Frenchmen told Eden of the secret negotiations between Israel and France regarding a proposed Israeli attack on Egypt followed with military occupation by European powers, to control the Suez Canal. Eden backed the plan with UK resources including military forces, directly leading to the Suez Crisis.[2][3][4][5]

Challe was a

Syrian Civil War
seeking to keep insurgency at bay and off balance. The Challe Plan was only partially completed before he was reassigned to France.

A line of electrified wire, minefields and other military barriers, the Challe Line, was named after him. It doubled another defence work, the Morice Line, which fortified the border and separated Algeria from Morocco and Tunisia.[6]

He was Commander-in-Chief

Allied Forces Central Europe (CINCENT) from May 1960 to his deliberate resignation in February 1961.[citation needed
]

Challe was one of the heads of the

OAS). Challe was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He was freed in December 1966 and received amnesty from President de Gaulle in 1968. Challe died on 18 January 1979, aged 73, in Paris.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-84737-392-2
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  2. ISBN 978-1-4299-3101-4
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  3. ISBN 1-55002-611-9
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  4. ISBN 0-8071-1987-3
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  5. ISBN 1-85043-955-9
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  6. ^ LIGNES CHALLE ET MORICE.html Lignes Challe et Morice, 1novembre54.com. Accessed 8 November 2022.
  7. ISBN 0-670-61964-7
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  • Horne, Alistair (1977). A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. New York: New York Review of Books.
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