I never really knew much about the Algiers crisis, but recently I decided to do a bit of research on it and the founding of the Fifth Republic and it appears that in 1958 their was a real, and effective coup d'etat by the French army: French paratroopers invaded and occupied Corsica (Operation Corse) and the army threatened to invade Paris and directly depose the government (Operation Resurrection) in the event of any one of three scenarios: if de Gaulle was not approved as leader of France by Parliament, if de Gaulle asked for military assistance to take power, or if it seemed that communist forces were making any move to take power in France. French President Rene Coty appealed to De Gaulle to become Prime Minister of the Forth Republic (Supposedly only 15 hours before Operation Resurrection was supposed to be put in place). De Gaulle accepted only under the conditions that De Gaulle had accepted Coty's proposal under the precondition that a new constitution would be introduced creating a powerful presidency in which a sole executive, the first of which was to be himself, ruled for seven-year periods. Another condition was that he be granted extraordinary powers for a period of six months. My question is what are the chances that De Gaulle could have successfully pushed further since he had the army's backing, to install himself with permanent emergency powers and the formation of a more permanent military backed dictatorship in France? De Gaulle's new constitution, including the new Executive powers, was approved by popular referendum by a whopping 79% so he certainly had a lot of popular support for what he was doing, do you think he could have got similar support for a more radical constitution? Furthermore if such a dictatorship happened (assuming it was possible and it endured) how would it have affected France's place in NATO and the gradual formation and evolution of the European Union.
Also if there are any French AH.com or members who have a good understanding of post-ww2 french politics members here, how are the Army and De Gaulle's actions viewed today by the people in France and in French schools? Are they seen as just given the political turmoil in France at the time and the Algerian War? I fully admit that I am a neophyte in area (I have only visited Paris twice in my life and I am not even European) so I would welcome any input on this topic.
Also on an aside note this sort of constitutional changes made by De Gaulle makes me think of the attempted constitutional changes that want to be made by Turkey's current president Racep Tayyip Erdoğan, especially the part about concentrating power in the executive position (ie. themselves). Are they in some way comparable, or am I way off base here?
Responses to any or all of the above questions would be appreciated and if anyone knows a TL already written here that deals with this please post the link.