The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate

Evidence

ENTERING its sixth year, the Algerian war had already lasted longer than the First World War and longer than American participation in the Second. Now, as the new year of 1960 approached, it was about to bring with it events that would seal the fate of Algérie française. All that followed in the final two years of the struggle would be little more than a fore-ordained postscript. And the first notes of the tocsin would be sounded, not by the Muslims or the F.L.N., but by the pieds noirs themselves. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1065 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The war’s sixth year sealed Algérie française’s fate, sounded by the pieds noirs; Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652; The Algerian war’s decisive turning point came from the pieds noirs, not the FLN. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1065 (+2 more)

Related

• The Algerian war’s decisive turning point came from the pieds noirs, not the FLN. (similarity 0.90)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.90)
• The bazooka assassination attempt stemmed from pied noir ultras, not the FLN (similarity 0.89)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.87)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria (similarity 0.86)
• After December 1960 the army, not the pieds noirs, drove events in Algeria (similarity 0.86)
• Pied noir factions demanded a second front against FLN and Paris alike. (similarity 0.85)
• Pieds noirs and metropolitan French spoke different political languages. (similarity 0.84)
• The pied noir lobby immediately demanded violent suppression of the revolt (similarity 0.83)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.83)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.83)
• Pied noirs justified Frenchness by blood shed in two world wars (similarity 0.83)
• Pieds noirs read integration as a path to numerical submergence of Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• French aid unintentionally accelerated Muslim economic competition against pieds noirs. (similarity 0.82)
• Pieds noirs faced Europe while Muslim Algerians faced inland Africa (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Algerian war’s decisive turning point came from the pieds noirs, not the FLN. #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1065
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française #corroborates (0.70)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria #corroborates (0.60)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria #corroborates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652