Annexing Algeria as French departments trapped later French republics inescapably.

Evidence

In December the following year, a time when the U.S.A. had admitted little more than half its eventual complement of states to the Union, the Second Republic declared Algeria an integral part of France, transforming its vast territories into three French departments. It was a historic, indeed unique, step, and one which thereby set up for successive French republics a deadly trap from which they would find it well nigh impossible to escape. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Directly sets up the central paradox of the later war: because Algeria was legally France, surrender meant losing French soil, not a colony. — connects to: France’s incorporation of Algeria into the Republic created an inescapable colonial trap.; France could not contemplate Algerian withdrawal because Algeria was legally part of France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1649

Related

• France’s incorporation of Algeria into the Republic created an inescapable colonial trap. (similarity 0.91)
• France could not contemplate Algerian withdrawal because Algeria was legally part of France (similarity 0.85)
• Harki recruitment depended on France’s pledge never to abandon Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s departmental status split it from the rest of the Maghreb administratively. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s loss paradoxically produced a stronger postcolonial France (similarity 0.81)
• Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.80)
• French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.80)
• Defeat in Algeria paradoxically produced a stronger France (similarity 0.79)
• Granting Tunisian and Moroccan independence without Algeria was a strategic error. (similarity 0.79)
• France’s 1871 loss to Prussia intensified its colonization of Algeria (similarity 0.78)
• France ending Algeria was a victory over itself, not a defeat (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• France could not contemplate Algerian withdrawal because Algeria was legally part of France #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1649