On Sunday 1 June de Gaulle presented himself to the National Assembly, the first time he had entered it since January 1946. The terms he announced for taking over were: full powers to rule by decree for six months, an enforced "holiday" of the Assembly for four months, and a mandate to submit a new constitution to the country. When the Coty communication was read out, pandemonium reigned; the Communists thumped their desks and shouted, "Le fascisme ne passera pas!" For Algeria, the prime cause of his being there that day, de Gaulle proffered no formula—any more than he had done in his previous pronouncements since 13 May.

XREF: Details from the Algerian crisis and France's transition to the Fifth Republic.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 904