Post-war France’s economic boom absorbed over a million pieds noirs.

Evidence

Ten years after the liquidation of the Algerian war, the face that France showed to the world was, once again, that of a truly great power, more self-confident than she had been at any time since before 1914, and certainly more prosperous in material terms. The economic revival of France under the stewardship of de Gaulle has been one of the miracles of the Western world, second only to Federal Germany’s recovery after 1945. No more remarkable yard-stick of it exists than the way in which France assimilated the over one million pieds noirs who flooded to her shores. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1661

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France; Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620

Related

• Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France (similarity 0.91)
• Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence (similarity 0.89)
• The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions (similarity 0.84)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.81)
• 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian workers in France lived in squalor while remitting vital billions home. (similarity 0.80)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian independence coincided with the start of France’s economic miracle. (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noirs justified Frenchness by blood shed in two world wars (similarity 0.78)
• Severing Algeria proved a net economic gain for France (similarity 0.78)