the decades to come, de Gaulle and his wife were the victims of thirty serious assassination attempts. After one, their car riddled with machine-gun fire, the windows shattered, all the tires blown out, Yvonne emerged, unscathed, and calmly inquired about the groceries she’d recently put in the trunk. De Gaulle mocked his assassins’ aim, saying, “These people shoot like pigs.” This was a family that mastered fear, transcended it even.
