Pierre-Marie Bigot

Pierre-Marie Bigot (22 December 1909 – 11 January 2008) was a French Air Force general. He was dismissed from the Air Force and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for taking part in the Algiers putsch of 1961.[1] Freed in 1965, he was reinstated in his rank by the 1982 amnesty law.[2]

References
  1. Théolleyre, J.-M. (8 June 1961). "L'EX-GÉNÉRAL PIERRE-MARIE BIGOT est condamné à quinze ans de détention criminelle". Le Monde.
  2. "France Décès du général Bigot, qui avait participé au putsch d'Alger". L'Orient-Le Jour. 18 January 2008.
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