 After his time as governor general, Soustelle returned to France to organize support for de Gaulle's return to power, while retaining close ties to the army and the "pieds-noirs".By early 1958, he had organized a coup d'état, bringing together dissident army officers and "pieds-noirs" with sympathetic Gaullists.An army junta under General Massu seized power in Algiers on the night of May 13, thereafter known as the May 1958 crisis.