Pierre Lagaillarde (; Courbevoie, 15 May 1931 – 17 August 2014) was a French politician, and a founder of the ''

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'' (OAS). Lagaillarde was a lawyer at

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, a reserve officer of the

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s, and an elected deputy of Algiers. 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 Charles de Gaulle 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

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in Paris, and took advantage of his parole to escape to Spain (along with Jean-Jacques Susini, Jean-Maurice Demarquet, Marcel Ronda and Fernand Féral Lefevre), where he joined

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and founded the OAS on 3 December 1960. Deprived of his immunity as a deputy, he was sentenced ''

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'' to ten years of prison in March 1961. In October 1961, he was arrested in Madrid, along with the Italian neofascist Guido Giannettini.René Monzat, ''Enquêtes sur la droite extrême'',

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, ''L’Ascension du MSI'',

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, Paris, 1972 The Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, later exiled Lagaillarde to the Canary Islands. 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 Politicians from Île-de-France Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of the Organisation armée secrète Far-right politicians in France People of the Algerian War Recipients of French presidential pardons