Pierre Lagaillarde (;

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, 15 May 1931 – 17 August 2014) was a French politician, and a founder of the '' Organisation armée secrète'' (OAS). Lagaillarde was a lawyer at Blida in Algeria, a reserve officer of the paratroopers, and an elected deputy of

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. He took the presidency of the ''Association générale des étudiants d'Alger'' (General Association of Alger's Students) in 1957, and also took part in the Alger insurrection of May 1958, which brought

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back to power. Lagaillarde was member of the ''Comité de salut public'' which opposed Algerian independence, and occupied the ''Gouvernement général de l'Algérie'' (local colonial administration). In November 1958, he was on the electoral list ''Algérie française'' (French Algeria), and then became a leader of the insurrection during the week of the barricades in January 1960. Lagaillarde was then detained in la Santé in Paris, and took advantage of his parole to escape to Spain (along with

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, and Fernand Féral Lefevre), where he joined Raoul Salan and founded the OAS on 3 December 1960. Deprived of his immunity as a deputy, he was sentenced '' in absentia'' to ten years of prison in March 1961. In October 1961, he was arrested in Madrid, along with the Italian neofascist

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.René Monzat, ''Enquêtes sur la droite extrême'', '' Le Monde''-éditions, 1992, p.91. Monzat quotes François Duprat, ''L'Ascension du MSI'', Edition les Sept Couleurs, Paris, 1972. The Spanish dictator,

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, later exiled Lagaillarde to the

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. Lagaillarde was pardoned by France through the 1968 amnesty law.

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A picture of Pierre Lagaillarde

Another picture (ref ALG-58-226-R44 on the monument first level left in battle dress)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lagaillarde, Pierre 1931 births 2014 deaths People from Courbevoie French people of colonial Algeria Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for French Algeria Members of the Organisation armée secrète French far-right politicians People of the Algerian War French expatriates in Spain French military personnel of the Algerian War People convicted in absentia Prisoners and detainees of Spain Recipients of French presidential pardons