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sped through Petit-Clamart it was met by a barrage of submachine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his entourage, which included his wife, survived the attempt without any casualties or serious injuries while the attempt's perpetrators were subsequently all arrested and put on trial. Bastien-Thiry was
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hospital in Paris at the same age her husband had been at the time of his death, and on the eve of the ninth anniversary of his death, 9 November 1979.
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