Editing Clamart (section)

=== De Gaulle assassination attempt ===
{{Main|Petit-Clamart attack}}
On 22 August 1962 the French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] was the target of an assassination attempt organised by the French Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel [[Jean Bastien-Thiry]]. As de Gaulle's black [[Citroën DS|Citroën DS 19]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081214080344/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907992,00.html "Objective: De Gaulle"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 9 October 1973</ref> 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 [[Jean Bastien-Thiry#Arrest and trial|arrested and put on trial]]. The leader of the assassination attempt, Jean Bastien-Thiry, was executed by firing squad after his 1963 conviction, and was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France.