Algerian maquisards agreed to surrender weapons only if honor was preserved

Evidence

Their first concern was that honour should remain intact; that acceptance of a paix des braves should in no way be allowed to look like capitulation. Accordingly, Bernard Tricot worked out a formula whereby the maquisards would “deposit for safe-keeping” their weapons in local gendarmeries (specifically not turning them over into army hands); they would then file away to their villages; only those guilty of “murder” would be placed under surveillance until the definitive end of hostilities; on reaching this point, France was to be trusted to institute a massive amnesty. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1184

Categorization

• DEFINE: This shows what ‘paix des braves’ concretely meant as negotiated: a face-saving formula that was not capitulation.
• XREF: connects to: Official naming of the Algerian conflict shaped military honors and refused war status

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Broader Connections

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