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But a simpler and more probable explanation was that the De Gaulle subordinates who had encouraged the insurrection had been sincere and had hoped thereby to force De Gaulle into accepting war to the finish in Algeria. And though a verdict in the barricades trial was still weeks away, the army had already used the trial to demonstrate pointedly that it was not above putting such pressures on De Gaulle again. Fortnight ago Pierre Lagaillarde, who had spent ten months in prison awaiting trial, was given "provisional liberty" by his military judges in open defiance of De Gaulle's known wishes. By last week all the other defendants were out on similar liberty.