Algeria remained pro-Vichy while Equatorial Africa went over to de Gaulle.

Evidence

To sympathetic ears Biaggi expounded, with perhaps more typically Corsican passion than legal reasoning, the view that the Fourth Republic could now claim no more legitimacy than Pétain’s Vichy in 1940. His eccentricity, his war record, but above all his extremism made him the darling of the Right in Algiers and helped open doors for the Gaullists to the pied noir veterans’ organisations that were hitherto predominantly Pétainist. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 841 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerian ultranationalists equated the Fourth Republic’s legitimacy with Vichy’s treachery. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 841

Related

• Algerian ultranationalists equated the Fourth Republic’s legitimacy with Vichy’s treachery. (similarity 0.95)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.84)
• Algerians were forced to shift loyalty across four French authorities within three years (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.81)
• Algiers ultras harbored deep Pétainist loyalties and distrust of de Gaulle (similarity 0.81)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s departmental status split it from the rest of the Maghreb administratively. (similarity 0.79)
• A socialist pacifist government escalated the Algerian war beyond all predecessors (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s political successes could not translate into any Algerian peace progress (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle declared pied noir colonial nostalgia politically dead in 1959. (similarity 0.79)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algerian ultranationalists equated the Fourth Republic’s legitimacy with Vichy’s treachery. #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 841