Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness

Evidence

The sentiments of the pied noir towards metropolitan France (for so many not their mother country at all) were compounded of resentment, love, disdain and an inferiority complex with the undertones of superiority that so often accompany it. … “Where is our promised land?” one of the rebel generals of 1961, Edmond Jouhaud, was to demand: “I think we have paid for the right to be French, by the blood that we shed from 1914 to 1918 and from 1939 to 1945.” It was an argument with which Britons were made familiar early in the Rhodesian crisis. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 158

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead; Pied noirs justified Frenchness by blood shed in two world wars; Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620 (+1 more)

Related

• Pied noirs justified Frenchness by blood shed in two world wars (similarity 0.92)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.91)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.82)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir surgeons aided the F.L.N. out of Algerian national identity (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.80)
• Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence (similarity 0.80)
• Most pied-noir OAS supporters sought to stay in Algeria rather than share its ideology (similarity 0.80)
• Je vous ai compris carried implicit racial equality that eventually insulted the pieds noirs (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian war sacrifices for France earned no meaningful citizenship in return (similarity 0.79)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.79)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.79)
• Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620
• Pied noir surgeons aided the F.L.N. out of Algerian national identity #contradicts (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 428