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Bastien-Thiry was born to a family of military officers in Lunéville. He attended the École Polytechnique, followed by the École nationale supérieure de l'Aéronautique before going into the French Air Force where he specialized in the design of air-to-air missiles. In 1957 he was promoted to become principal air military engineer. He was married with three daughters.

Having been a strong supporter of French Algeria throughout the Algerian war of independence, and coming from a military background, Bastien-Thiry joined the Organisation de l'Armée SecrèteThe Organisation de l'Armee Secrete (OAS) was a short-lived French right-wing terrorist group formed in February 1961 to resist the granting of independence to the French colony of Algeria Algerie francaise . The OAS was created in response to the referen (OAS) which organised vigilantes to oppose the independence movement. He perceived the separation from Algeria as "even graver than that with Alsace-LorraineAlsace-Lorraine ( French: Alsace-Lorraine German: Elsass-Lothringen was the territory ceded by France to the newly-unified Germany under the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (which ended the Franco-Prussian War) and restored to France after World War I by the 191".

De Gaulle held a referendum on independence in Algeria on July 1July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. Events 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I. 1690 Battle of the Boyne as reck, 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e which went overwhelmingly in favour, and then granted its independence. Bastien-Thiry considered this made de Gaulle's removal from power absolutely necessary, and having read Thomas AquinasSaint Thomas Aquinas ( 1225 March 7 1274) was a Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, who gave birth to the thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. He is considered by the concluded that regicideRegicide is a the deliberate killing of a king by one of his subjects. It has particular resonance within the concept of the Divine Right of Kings, whereby monarchs were presumed by decision of God to have a divinely anointed authority to rule. As such, a was legitimate in certain circumstances. He joined together with other sympathisers to organize an assassination. De Gaulle's light security made it easy and the group set themselves up in the ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to suburb of Petit- ClamartClamart is a city in France, in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. The city is divided into two parts, separated by a forest and they are, bas Clamart the historical centre, the petit Clamart with urbanization developed in t on August 22, 1962. De Gaulle's car was raked with machine gun fire but de Gaulle managed to escape without injury when he ducked just in time.

Bastien-Thiry was arrested when he came back from a scientific mission in the United Kingdom, and brought to trial before a military tribunal presided over by General Roger Gardet from January 28 to March 4, 1963. He was defended by attorney Jacques Isorni . He was convicted and sentenced to death. De Gaulle, as President, had the power of clemency and pardoned those who fired the shots, but refused to pardon Bastien-Thiry despite his claims to have suffered clinical depression at the time of organising the assassination. Bastien-Thiry was shot by firing squad at Fresnes Prison.