European Algerians

The European settler population in colonial Algeria (the pieds-noirs), who were of French and other European descent and held privileged status over the Muslim majority during French colonial rule.

Claims that use this term

• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance.
• By late 1960 both Muslim and European Algerians had lost faith in de Gaulle
• European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it