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Military revolts against decolonizing Algeria toppled the French government in 1958 leading to the Fifth Republic--a generally free multiparty democracy that freed Algeria just a few years later. What prevented France from falling into military autocracy?

by /u/UnsealedMTG in /r/AskHistorians

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