[Thanks, CB]
It has been suspected, here and there, that few people have an impact on world affairs, this fellow certainly gave it a go...
Adieu Hélie de Saint Marc, Soldat
prisoner at Buchenwald, actor in a coups d'é•tat
he fought and lost in Indo-China and failed to take Algiers
pardoned and out of prison he was reconciled with his peers...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/10268048/Helie-de-Saint-Marc.html