De Gaulle was the target of about thirty serious assassination attempts, two of which — in September 1961 and August 1962 — nearly succeeded. For some anti-Gaullists, the fixation on de Gaulle became so incorporated into their personality that their original reasons for wanting to kill him were eclipsed by the hatred he inspired.
Hating de Gaulle for accepting Algerian independence was one of those motives for at least one of those attempts.
That bit is from Julian Jackson, A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle, a good book.
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