Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence

Evidence

By the beginning of August, of the 250,000 European inhabitants of Oran only 40,000 were left. When the exodus was all over it was estimated that 50,000 pieds noirs had gone to Spain; 12,000 to Canada; 10,000 to Israel; and 1,550 to Argentina. But the huge mass, 1,380,000 strong (which included the luckier Muslim refugees) — equivalent then to the combined population of the two biggest French cities after Paris — had flooded into France. Only 30,000 stayed bravely, or hopelessly, behind. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France; The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions; 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France (+6 more)

Related

• Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France (similarity 0.97)
• The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions (similarity 0.96)
• 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France (similarity 0.94)
• Post-war France’s economic boom absorbed over a million pieds noirs. (similarity 0.89)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.84)
• Pieds noirs in northern France experienced spiritual death in exile. (similarity 0.81)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness (similarity 0.80)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.79)
• Thousands of Muslim Algerians joined pied noir crowds in mass pro-France fraternisation (similarity 0.79)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.79)
• The French state classified settlers and harkis unequally to erase Algeria’s Frenchness. (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.79)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.78)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Post-war France’s economic boom absorbed over a million pieds noirs. #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1661
• Pieds noirs in northern France experienced spiritual death in exile. #responds-to (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1661
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues #expands (0.50)