The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620; 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France

Related

• Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence (similarity 0.96)
• 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France (similarity 0.96)
• Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France (similarity 0.95)
• Post-war France’s economic boom absorbed over a million pieds noirs. (similarity 0.84)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.82)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.81)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.81)
• Thousands of Muslim Algerians joined pied noir crowds in mass pro-France fraternisation (similarity 0.80)
• Pieds noirs in northern France experienced spiritual death in exile. (similarity 0.79)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.79)
• Pieds noirs faced Europe while Muslim Algerians faced inland Africa (similarity 0.79)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.78)
• Europeans were only one-third of Algiers’ 900,000 population yet dominated its cityscape (similarity 0.78)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France #expands (0.80)
• Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620