Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality.

Evidence

Then Soustelle introduced a new concept: “This means that a choice has been made, and this choice is called ‘integration’. It is to make Algeria each day more completely a province, different from the others, certainly, but fully French.” Elaborating, later, on the difference between his new policy of “integration” and the old Blum—Viollette ideal of “assimilation”, Soustelle explained that it was much the more “realist”; that it recognised the original “personality” of Algeria; that, in economic terms, it aimed at sweeping away “obsolete legacies of an imaginary autonomy affording Algeria no other privilege than that of her misery”; and that, in political terms, it was to be based upon the “immutable equality of all its inhabitants”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 343

Categorization

• DEFINE: None
• XREF: connects to: Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French; Pied noir resistance killed the Blum—Viollette assimilation bill. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 102; The failed Blum-Viollette Bill empowered pied noir obstruction of French reforms — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 115 (+2 more)

Related

• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.96)
• Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes (similarity 0.90)
• Pied noir resistance killed the Blum—Viollette assimilation bill. (similarity 0.87)
• The failed Blum-Viollette Bill empowered pied noir obstruction of French reforms (similarity 0.86)
• Soustelle’s integration program paired military control with sweeping social and economic reform (similarity 0.82)
• Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle predicted France would lose Algeria on the home front, not militarily. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian integration was only ever workable before 1958 (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle’s moderate third path was squeezed by both sides (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.80)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.80)
• Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958 (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.79)
• Thwarted assimilation reforms repeatedly converted Muslim hopes into despair (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Soustelle’s integration policy rejected assimilation while promising perpetual French provincehood #corroborates (0.90)
• De Gaulle’s Algerian programme initially resembled previous policy #expands (0.50)