Gaullist propaganda depicted Algerian withdrawal as another loss of empire like Canada and India.

Evidence

The well-named Courrier de la Colère, which he had founded the same year, angrily drew comparisons between Louis XV’s abandonment of Canada and India and the present-day “sell-out” of the French Empire, and hammered away with such headlines as: — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 839

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in how colonial ideology invoked earlier imperial abandonments.