De Gaulle’s High Commissioner believed pied noir landholding was unsustainable beyond fifteen years

Evidence

To the author Christian Fouchet, de Gaulle’s last High Commissioner, admitted that even at the time of Evian he never foresaw that the pieds noirs would all be able to stay forever: “It would certainly have been impossible for them to have continued to hold land — there would, at best, have been a transitional period of, say, fifteen years — then they would have had to give up.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1702

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s interest in why the French colonial presence was structurally unsustainable, even apart from the war.

Related

• De Gaulle privately judged the era of European colonial administration over. (similarity 0.78)
• De Gaulle declared pied noir colonial nostalgia politically dead in 1959. (similarity 0.78)