Pied noirs justified Frenchness by blood shed in two world wars

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

We want to show in this first study that on the Algerian soil a new society has come to birth. The men and women of Algeria today resemble neither those of 1930 nor those of 1954, nor yet those of 1957. The old Algeria is dead. All the innocent blood that has flowed onto the national soil has produced a new humanity and no one must fail to recognize this fact. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 86 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 158; Colonial war generated a new Algerian humanity arising from the blood shed — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 86; France stiffened citizenship requirements by demanding proof of cultural Frenchness (+2 more)

Related

• Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness (similarity 0.92)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.85)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria (similarity 0.84)
• The French state classified settlers and harkis unequally to erase Algeria’s Frenchness. (similarity 0.84)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian war sacrifices for France earned no meaningful citizenship in return (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian nationhood became an embodied reality inside each new Algerian (similarity 0.80)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.80)
• Pieds noirs and metropolitan French spoke different political languages. (similarity 0.80)
• The pied noir dilemma left its people dispossessed in both countries. (similarity 0.80)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 158
• France stiffened citizenship requirements by demanding proof of cultural Frenchness #complicates (0.60)
• Colonial war generated a new Algerian humanity arising from the blood shed #qualifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 86