Algerian ultranationalists equated the Fourth Republic’s legitimacy with Vichy’s treachery.

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria remained pro-Vichy while Equatorial Africa went over to de Gaulle.; Algiers ultras harbored deep Pétainist loyalties and distrust of de Gaulle

Related

• Algeria remained pro-Vichy while Equatorial Africa went over to de Gaulle. (similarity 0.95)
• Algiers ultras harbored deep Pétainist loyalties and distrust of de Gaulle (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians were forced to shift loyalty across four French authorities within three years (similarity 0.81)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Algiers ultras harbored deep Pétainist loyalties and distrust of de Gaulle #corroborates (0.80)