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The result was a dramatic increase in the export of wheat, corn, peaches, and olive oil. French Algeria became the fourth most important wine producer in the world. Opposition to colonial rule led to rebellions in Morocco in , Syria in , and Indochina in , all of which the colonial army quickly suppressed. Not involved in the decision-making were military leaders, arms manufacturers, the newspapers, pressure groups, party leaders, or spokesmen for French nationalism.

Britain wanted to remain neutral but entered the war when the German army invaded Belgium on its way to Paris. The French victory at the Battle of the Marne in September ensured the failure of Germany's strategy to win quickly. It became a long and very bloody war of attrition, but France emerged on the winning side.

French intellectuals welcomed the war to avenge the humiliation of defeat and loss of territory in The economy was hurt by the German invasion of major industrial areas in the northeast. By , the war economy went into high gear, as millions of French women and colonial men replaced the civilian roles of many of the 3 million soldiers.

Considerable assistance came with the influx of American food, money and raw materials in This war economy would have important reverberations after the war, as it would be a first breach of liberal theories of non-interventionism. Inflation was severe, with the franc losing over half its value against the British pound. To uplift the French national spirit, many intellectuals began to fashion patriotic propaganda. After the French army successfully defended Paris in , the conflict became one of trench warfare along the Western Front , with very high casualty rates. It became a war of attrition.

Until spring of , amazing as it seems, there were almost no territorial gains or losses for either side. Georges Clemenceau , whose ferocious energy and determination earned him the nickname le Tigre "the Tiger" , led a coalition government after that was determined to defeat Germany. Meanwhile, large swaths of northeastern France fell under the brutal control of German occupiers. A change of fortunes in the late summer and autumn of led to the defeat of Germany in World War I.

The most important factors that led to the surrender of Germany were its exhaustion after four years of fighting and the arrival of large numbers of troops from the United States beginning in the summer of Peace terms were imposed on Germany by the Big Four: Clemenceau demanded the harshest terms and won most of them in the Treaty of Versailles in Germany was largely disarmed and forced to take full responsibility for the war, meaning that it was expected to pay huge war reparations.

France regained Alsace-Lorraine, and the German industrial Saar Basin , a coal and steel region, was occupied by France. From to , France was governed by two main groupings of political alliances. The Bloc was supported by business and finance and was friendly toward the army and the Church. Its main goals were revenge against Germany, economic prosperity for French business and stability in domestic affairs. Herriot's party was in fact neither radical nor socialist, rather it represented the interests of small business and the lower middle class. It was intensely anti-clerical and resisted the Catholic Church.

The Cartel was occasionally willing to form a coalition with the Socialist Party. Anti-democratic groups, such as the Communists on the left and royalists on the right, played relatively minor roles. The flow of reparations from Germany played a central role in strengthening French finances. The government began a large-scale reconstruction program to repair wartime damages, and was burdened with a very large public debt.

From to , the French economy prospered and manufacturing flourished. Foreign observers in the s noted the excesses of the French upper classes, but emphasized the rapid re-building of the regions of northeastern France that had seen warfare and occupation. They reported the improvement of financial markets, the brilliance of the post-war literature and the revival of public morale. The world economic crisis known as the Great Depression affected France a bit later than other countries, hitting around In addition, there was no banking crisis.

Foreign policy was of growing concern interest to France during the inter-war period. The horrible devastation of the war, including the death of 1. France demanded that Germany assume many of the costs incurred from the war through annual reparation payments. France enthusiastically joined the League of Nations in , but felt betrayed by President Woodrow Wilson , when his promises that the United States would sign a defence treaty with France and join the League were rejected by the United States Congress. The main goal of French foreign policy was to preserve French power and neutralize the threat posed by Germany.

When Germany fell behind in reparations payments in , France seized the industrialized Ruhr region. France tried to create a web of defensive treaties against Germany with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. There was little effort to build up the military strength or technological capabilities of these small allies, and they remained weak and divided among themselves. In the end, the alliances proved worthless. France also constructed a powerful defensive wall in the form of a network of fortresses along its German border.

It was called the Maginot Line and was trusted to compensate for the heavy manpower losses of the First World War. The main goal of foreign policy was the diplomatic response to the demands of the French army in the s and s to form alliances against the German threat, especially with Britain and with smaller countries in central Europe.

Appeasement was increasingly adopted as Germany grew stronger after , for France suffered a stagnant economy, unrest in its colonies, and bitter internal political fighting. Appeasement, says historian Martin Thomas was not a coherent diplomatic strategy or a copying of the British. In , the socialist movement split, with the majority forming the French Communist Party. When Stalin told French Communists to collaborate with others on the left in , a popular front was made possible with an emphasis on unity against fascism.

In , the Socialists and the Radicals formed a coalition, with Communist support, to complete it. The Popular Front's narrow victory in the elections of the spring of brought to power a government headed by the Socialists in alliance with the Radicals. The Communists supported its domestic policies, but did not take any seats in the cabinet. In two years in office, it focused on labor law changes sought by the trade unions, especially the mandatory hour work week , down from 48 hours. All workers were given a two-week paid vacation. A collective bargaining law facilitated union growth; membership soared from 1,, to 5,, in one year, and workers' political strength was enhanced when the Communist and non-Communist unions joined together.

The government nationalized the armaments industry and tried to seize control of the Bank of France in an effort to break the power of the richest families in the country. Farmers received higher prices, and the government purchased surplus wheat, but farmers had to pay higher taxes. Wave after wave of strikes hit French industry in The higher prices for French products resulted in a decline in overseas sales, which the government tried to neutralize by devaluing the franc, a measure that led to a reduction in the value of bonds and savings accounts. The overall result was significant damage to the French economy, and a lower rate of growth.

Most historians judge the Popular Front a failure, although some call it a partial success. There is general agreement that it failed to live up to the expectations of the left. Politically, the Popular Front fell apart over Blum's refusal to intervene vigorously in the Spanish Civil War , as demanded by the Communists. Above all, the Communists portrayed themselves as French nationalists. Young Communists dressed in costumes from the revolutionary period and the scholars glorified the Jacobins as heroic predecessors.

Historians have turned their attention to the right in the interwar period, looking at various categories of conservatives and Catholic groups as well as the far right fascist movement. The favorite enemy was the left, especially as represented by socialists. The conservatives were divided on foreign affairs. The Revue des deux Mondes , with its prestigious past and sharp articles, was a major conservative organ. Summer camps and youth groups were organized to promote conservative values in working-class families, and help them design a career path.

France's republican government had long been strongly anti-clerical. The Law of Separation of Church and State in had expelled many religious orders, declared all Church buildings government property, and led to the closing of most Church schools. In the papal encyclical Maximam Gravissimamque , many areas of dispute were tacitly settled and a bearable coexistence made possible.

The Catholic Church expanded its social activities after , especially by forming youth movements. It encouraged young working women to adopt Catholic approaches to morality and to prepare for future roles as mothers at the same time as it promoted notions of spiritual equality and encouraged young women to take active, independent, and public roles in the present. Catholics on the far right supported several shrill, but small, groupings that preached doctrines similar to fascism. It was intensely nationalistic, anti-Semitic and reactionary, calling for a return to the monarchy and domination of the state by the Catholic Church.

France and Great Britain abandoned Czechoslovakia and appeased the Germans by giving in to their demands concerning the acquisition of the Sudetenland the portions of Czechoslovakia with German-speaking majorities. Intensive rearmament programs began in and were re-doubled in , but they would only bear fruit in and Historians have debated two themes regarding the sudden collapse of the French government in One emphasizes a broad cultural and political interpretation, pointing to failures, internal dissension, and a sense of malaise that ran through all French society.

As the French 1st, 7th, 9th armies and the British Expeditionary Force moved in Belgium to meet Army Group B, the German Army Group A outflanked the Allies at the Battle of Sedan of by coming through the Ardennes , a broken and heavily forested terrain that had been believed to be impassable to armoured units.

The Germans also rushed along the Somme valley toward the English Channel coast to catch the Allies in a large pocket that forced them into the disastrous Battle of Dunkirk.

Algerian War

As a result of this brilliant German strategy, embodied in the Manstein Plan , the Allies were defeated in stunning fashion. Charles de Gaulle had made the Appeal of 18 June earlier, exhorting all French not to accept defeat and to rally to Free France and continue the fight with the Allies. Throughout its seventy-year history, the Third Republic stumbled from crisis to crisis, from dissolved parliaments to the appointment of a mentally ill president Paul Deschanel.

It fought bitterly through the First World War against the German Empire , and the inter-war years saw much political strife with a growing rift between the right and the left.

When France was liberated in , few called for a restoration of the Third Republic, and a Constituent Assembly was established by the government of a provisional French Republic to draft a constitution for a successor, established as the Fourth Republic to that December, a parliamentary system not unlike the Third Republic.

Adolphe Thiers , first president of the Third Republic, called republicanism in the s "the form of government that divides France least. France's longest-lasting governmental system since before the Revolution , the Third Republic was consigned to the history books as being unloved and unwanted in the end. Yet, its longevity showed that it was capable of weathering many storms, particularly the First World War. One of the most surprising aspects of the Third Republic was that it constituted the first stable republican government in French history and the first to win the support of the majority of the population, but it was intended as an interim, temporary government.

Following Thiers's example, most of the Orleanist monarchists progressively rallied themselves to the Republican institutions, thus giving support of a large part of the elites to the Republican form of government. This far-right monarchist movement became influential in the Quartier Latin in the s.

It also became a model for various far right leagues that participated to the 6 February riots that toppled the Second Cartel des gauches government. Proponents of the concept have argued that the French defeat of was caused by what they regard as the innate decadence and moral rot of France.

John Gunther in , before the defeat of France, reported that the Third Republic "the reductio ad absurdum of democracy" had had cabinets with an average length of eight months, and that 15 former prime ministers were living. Bloch said that the Third Republic suffered from a deep internal "rot" that generated bitter social tensions, unstable governments, pessimism and defeatism, fearful and incoherent diplomacy, hesitant and shortsighted military strategy, and, finally, facilitated German victory in June The French Communist Party blamed the defeat on the "corrupt" and "decadent" capitalist Third Republic conveniently hiding its own sabotaging of the French war effort during the Nazi-Soviet Pact and its opposition to the "imperialist war" against Germany in — From a different perspective, Gaullists called the Third Republic a "weak" regime and argued that if France had a regime headed by a strong-man president like Charles de Gaulle before , the defeat could have been avoided.

Taylor often described the Third Republic as a tottering regime on the verge of collapse. Shirer 's book The Collapse of the Third Republic , where the French defeat is explained as the result of the moral weakness and cowardice of the French leaders. Young , who, in his book In Command of France argued that French society was not decadent, that the defeat of was due to only military factors, not moral failures, and that the Third Republic's leaders had done their best under the difficult conditions of the s. They praised French art, music, literature, theater, and fashion, and stressed French resilience and pluck in the face of growing Nazi aggression and brutality.

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Religion, society, and politics in France since The March to the Marne: The French Army — The "crisis" therefore hinged upon Monaco's legitimate order of succession on the one hand, and France's security policy on the other. In the peaceful Monegasque Revolution protests resulted in the Constitution of Monaco.

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The solution was an unequal treaty between France and Monaco which formalized and rendered permanent the latter's position as a client state: Not only did it require Monaco to conduct its foreign relations in consultation with or through France, but it obliged the dynasty to obtain French authorization for marital alliances or changes in succession, and declared that should the throne become vacant Monaco would become an official protectorate under French jurisdiction — while retaining nominal independence.

Louis, while serving in the French army, befriended the laundress of his regiment, who asked him to look after her daughter, Marie Juliette Louvet. Subsequently, Louis and Marie had a daughter out-of-wedlock , Charlotte Louvet , who remained in the custody of her mother during her minority. Nonetheless, Louis recognised her as his child in The ordinance was therefore invalid, and the sovereign prince was so notified by the National Council of Monaco in The law stipulated that the adopted child would fully inherit all the rights, titles and prerogatives of the person who adopted him, including succession rights to the crown.

The amendment also provided that, should the prince have legitimate issue after such an adoption, the adopted child would follow such issue in the order of succession. Another ordinance of 31 October stated the conditions for an adoption. While the adoption process was underway, and given the failures of the German Spring Offensive and the Second Battle of the Marne , France persuaded Prince Albert to sign a restrictive treaty in Paris on 17 July Article 2 stipulated that the accession of future princes of Monaco was to be subject to French approval, thereby limiting Monaco's sovereignty: The ordinance changed the adoptee's minimum age to eighteen Charlotte was twenty at the time of adoption but not the other age limit, Prince Louis then being only aged forty-eight.

Indeed, the balance of power was asymmetric between France and the FLN so at this time, victory seemed difficult to achieve. The Algerian revolution began with the insurrection of November 1, when the FLN organized a series of attacks against the French army and military infrastructure, and published a statement calling on Algerians to get involved in the revolution. In the short term however, it had a limited impact: Furthermore, the FLN was weak militarily at the beginning of the war.

It was created in , so its numbers were not numerous. Thus, they could not compete with the French army. In addition to that, there were conflicting divisions within the nationalist groups. As a consequence, the members of the FLN decided to develop a strategy to internationalize the conflict: First, this political aspect would reinforce the legitimacy of the FLN in Algeria.

Secondly, this strategy would be necessary all the more as Algeria had a special status compared to other colonised territories. Thus, the FLN tried to give an international aspect to the conflict to get support from abroad, but also to put a diplomatic pressure on the French government. These objectives are in the statement of Thereby, the conflict rapidly became international thanks to the FLN which used the tensions due to the Cold War and the emergence of the Third World.

First of all, the FLN used the tensions between the American and the Soviet blocs to serve its interests. Indeed, their objective was to be supported materially by the Eastern bloc so that the Western Bloc will react, and will ask for their independence because it is in the American interest that Algeria stays on the western side. The USA couldn't openly tolerate colonisation. But France was their ally, and they couldn't renounce this alliance. Nevertheless, it gave them a bad image abroad, and could encourage Algeria to join the eastern side.

After the Second World War , many new states were created as a result of decolonization. In , there were 51 states in the UN , and in , they are Thus, the balance of power in the UN changed a lot, and the recently decolonised countries were now a majority, so they had huge capacities. In addition to that, those new states are part of the Third-World movement. They went to be a third path in a bipolar world it is the non-alignment , they are against colonisation, and for modernization.

As an example, in , a few days after the first insurrection, the radio in Yugoslavia Third-Worldist begin to make propaganda for the struggle of Algeria. Therefore, they are forced to accept more direct support from abroad, and especially the financial and military support from China. This help allowed them to rebuild the ALN with 20 men. It means that Algeria has official representatives, so the negotiations with the French government are facilitated.

But these negotiations will finally be more positive for the Algerian than for the French government. On the contrary, France is isolated, and is under the pressure of the USA, so they are going to yield. Algeria finally becomes independent with the Evian agreements and largely thanks to the internationalisation of the conflict. For the sake of clarity, each group's exodus is described separately here, although their fate shared many common elements. Pied-noir literally "black foot" is a term used to name the European-descended population mostly Catholic , who had resided in Algeria for generations; it is sometimes used to include the indigenous Sephardi Jewish population as well, which likewise emigrated after Europeans arrived in Algeria as immigrants from all over the western Mediterranean particularly France, Spain, Italy and Malta , starting in The Maghrebi Jewish population was outnumbered by the Sephardic Jews, who were driven out of Spain in , and was further strengthened by Marrano refugees from the Spanish Inquisition through the 16th century.

In just a few months in , , of them fled, the first third prior to the referendum, in the largest relocation of population to Europe since the Second World War. A motto used in the FLN propaganda designating the pieds-noirs community was "Suitcase or coffin" " La valise ou le cercueil " — an expropriation of a term first coined years earlier by pied-noir "ultras" when rallying the European community to their hardcore line. The French government claimed not to have anticipated such a massive exodus; it estimated that a maximum of —, might enter metropolitan France temporarily.

Nothing was planned for their move to France, and many had to sleep in streets or abandoned farms on their arrival. A minority of departing pieds-noirs , including soldiers, destroyed their possessions before departure, to protest and as a desperate symbolic attempt to leave no trace of over a century of European presence, but the vast majority of their goods and houses were left intact and abandoned. A large number of panicked people camped for weeks on the docks of Algerian harbors, waiting for a space on a boat to France.

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About , pieds-noirs chose to remain, but most of those gradually left in the s and s, primarily due to residual hostility against them, including machine-gunning of public places in Oran. The so-called Harkis , from the Algerian-Arabic dialect word harki soldier , were indigenous Muslim Algerians as opposed to European-descended Catholics or indigenous Algerian Mizrachi Sephardi Jews who fought as auxiliaries on the French side. The term also came to include civilian indigenous Algerians who supported a French Algeria.

According to French government figures, there were , Algerian Muslims serving in the French Army in four times more than in the FLN , either in regular units Spahis and Tirailleurs or as irregulars harkis and moghaznis. In , around 90, Harkis took refuge in France, despite French government policy against this. French historians estimate that somewhere between 50, and , Harkis and members of their families were killed by the FLN or by lynch mobs in Algeria, often in atrocious circumstances or after torture.

While it is difficult to enumerate the war's casualties, the FLN estimated in that nearly eight years of revolution effected 1. Some other French and Algerian sources later put the figure at approximately , dead, while French officials estimated it at , French military authorities listed their losses at nearly 25, dead 6, from non-combat-related causes and 65, wounded. European-descended civilian casualties exceeded 10, including 3, dead in 42, recorded violent incidents.

According to French official figures during the war, the army, security forces and militias killed , presumed rebel combatants. More than 12, Algerians died in internal FLN purges during the war. French sources also estimated that 70, Muslim civilians were killed, or abducted and presumed killed, by the FLN. Martin Evans citing Gilert Meyinier imply at least 55, to up to 60, non-Harki Algerian civilians were killed during the conflict without specifying which side killed them. Horne estimated Algerian casualties during the span of eight years to be around , Uncounted thousands of Muslim civilians lost their lives in French Army ratissages, bombing raids, or vigilante reprisals.

In addition, large numbers of pro-French Muslims were murdered when the FLN settled accounts after independence, [1]: After Algeria's independence was recognised, Ahmed Ben Bella quickly became more popular and thereby more powerful. In June , he challenged the leadership of Premier Benyoucef Ben Khedda ; this led to several disputes among his rivals in the FLN, which were quickly suppressed by Ben Bella's rapidly growing support, most notably within the armed forces.

By September, Bella was in de facto control of Algeria and was elected premier in a one-sided election on September 20, and was recognised by the U. Algeria was admitted as the th member of the United Nations on October 8, Afterward, Ben Bella declared that Algeria would follow a neutral course in world politics; within a week he met with U. Kennedy , requesting more aid for Algeria with Fidel Castro and expressed approval of Castro's demands for the abandonment of Guantanamo Bay. Bella returned to Algeria and requested that France withdraw from its bases there.

In November, his government banned political parties, providing that the FLN would be the only party allowed to function overtly. Algeria remained stable, though in a one-party state , until a violent civil war broke out in the s. For Algerians of many political factions, the legacy of their War of Independence was a legitimization or even sanctification of the unrestricted use of force in achieving a goal deemed to be justified.

Once invoked against foreign colonialists, the same principle could also be turned with relative ease against fellow Algerians. The American journalist Adam Shatz wrote that much of the same methods employed by the FLN against the French such as "the militarization of politics, the use of Islam as a rallying cry, the exaltation of jihad" to create an essentially secular state in , were used by Islamic fundamentalists in their efforts to overthrow the FLN regime in the s.

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Torture was a frequent process in use from the beginning of the colonization of Algeria , which started in Claude Bourdet had denounced these acts on December 6, , in the magazine L'Observateur , rhetorically asking, "Is there a Gestapo in Algeria? Huf, in his seminal work on the subject, argued that the use of torture was one of the major factors in developing French opposition to the war.

The French national psyche would not tolerate any parallels between their experiences of occupation and their colonial mastery of Algeria. In June , Bigeard declared that he was based in Sidi Ferruch , a torture center where Algerians were murdered. Bigeard qualified Louisette Ighilahriz 's revelations, published in the Le Monde newspaper on June 20, , as "lies. In France officially admitted that torture was systematic and routine. Specializing in ambushes and night raids to avoid direct contact with superior French firepower, the internal forces targeted army patrols, military encampments, police posts, and colonial farms, mines, and factories, as well as transportation and communications facilities.

Kidnapping was commonplace, as was the murder and mutilation of civilians. Throat slitting and decapitation were commonly used by the FLN as mechanisms of terror. Counter-insurgency tactics developed during the war were used elsewhere afterwards, including the Argentinian Dirty War in the s. In a book, journalist Marie-Monique Robin alleges that French secret agents taught Argentine intelligence agents counter-insurgency tactics, including the systemic use of torture, block-warden system, and other techniques, all of which were employed during the Battle of Algiers. The Battle of Algiers film includes the documentation.

In France, the war was known as " la guerre sans nom " "the war without a name" while it was being fought as the government variously described the war as the "Algerian events", the "Algerian problem" and the "Algerian dispute"; the mission of the French Army was "ensuring security", "maintaining order" and "pacification", but was never described as fighting a war; while the FLN were referred to as "criminals", "bandits", "outlaws", "terrorists" and " fellagha " a derogatory Arabic word meaning "road-cutters", but which was popularly mistranslated as "throat-cutters"-a reference to the FLN"s favorite method of execution, namely making people wear the "Algerian smile" by cutting their throats, pulling their tongues out and leaving them to bleed to death.

As the war was officially a "police action", for decades no monuments were built to honor the about 25, French soldiers killed in the war while the Defense Ministry refused to classify veterans as veterans until the s. In , the British historian Alistair Horne published A Savage War of Peace , which is generally regarded as the leading book written on the subject in English, though written from a French perspective rather the Algerian.

In a column published in The Times Literacy Supplement reviewing the book A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne, the Iraqi-born British historian Elie Kedourie vigorously attacked Horne as an apologist for terrorism, accusing him of engaging the "cosy pieties" of bien-pensants as Kedorie condemned those Western intellectuals who excused terrorism when committed by Third World revolutionaries.

Before the war, Algeria was a favored setting for French films with the British French professor Leslie Hill having written: From time to time, the memory of the Algerian War surfaced in France. When will Massu be in Algeria! Origins and Development of a Nation. On 15 June , Le Monde published an interview with Louisette Ighilahriz, a former FLN member who described in graphic detail her torture at the hands of the French Army and made the sensational claim that the war heroes General Jacques Massu and General Marcel Bigeard had personally been present when she being tortured for information.

Richaud one last time to thank him personally Dr. Richaud it turned out had died in In , Une Vie Debout: Convinced that they had to act with resolution in order to protect themselves against their enemies, they deliberately chose an authoritarian path. The Algerian War remains a contentious event today. According to historian Benjamin Stora , one of the leading historians on the Algerian war, memories concerning the war remain fragmented, with no common ground to speak of:.

There is no such thing as a history of the Algerian War; there is just a multitude of histories and personal paths through it. Everyone involved considers that they lived through it in their own way, and any attempt to understand the Algerian War globally is immediately rejected by protagonists. Even though Stora has counted 3, publications in French on the Algerian war, there still is no work produced by French and Algerian authors cooperating with one another.

Even though, according to Stora, there can "no longer be talk about a 'war without a name', a number of problems remain, especially the absence of sites in France to commemorate" the war. Furthermore, conflicts have arisen on an exact commemoration date to end the war. Although many sources as well as the French state place it on March 19, , the Evian agreements , others point out that the massacres of harkis and the kidnapping of pieds-noirs took place afterwards.

Stora further points out, "The phase of memorial reconciliation between the two sides of the sea is still a long way off. Alongside a heated debate in France, the February 23, , law had the effect of jeopardizing the treaty of friendship that President Jacques Chirac was supposed to sign with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika —a treaty no longer on the agenda.

Chirac finally had the law repealed through a complex institutional mechanism. Indeed, the Algerian War is not even the subject of a specific chapter in textbook for terminales [93] Henceforth, Benjamin Stora stated:. As Algerians do not appear in an "indigenous" condition, and their sub-citizens status, as the history of nationalist movement, is never evoked as their being one of great figures of the resistance, such as Messali Hadj and Ferhat Abbas.

They neither emerge nor are being given attention. No one is explaining to students what colonization has been. We have prevented students from understanding why the decolonization took place.

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It is impossible to understand the third-generation of Algerian immigrants to France without recalling this bicultural experience. After having denied its use for 40 years, the French state has finally recognized its history of torture; although, there was never an official proclamation about it. General Paul Aussaresses was sentenced following his justification of the use of torture for "apology of war crimes. But academic research has proven both theses false. The suppression of these riots officially saw 1, other deaths, but N.

Lemaire estimate the number to be between 6, and 8, He also argues that the least controversial of all the numbers put forward by various groups are those concerning the French soldiers, where government numbers are largely accepted as sound. Most controversial are the numbers of civilians killed. On this subject, he turns to the work of Meynier, who, citing French army documents not the official number posits the range of 55,—60, deaths.

Meynier further argues that the best number to capture the harkis deaths is 30, If we add to this, the number of European civilians, which government figures posit as 2, Meynier's work cited was: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Algerian Civil War.

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