Historically, however, what is important about both the “Faure affair” and le bazooka is the profound malady and disaffection that they revealed in the heart of the French army, extending to the higher reaches of the Fourth Republic itself, and which were shortly to burst to the surface with revolutionary force.

XREF: This connects to broader scholarship on French decolonization and the Algerian War period, and how institutional decay preceded regime change.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 544