Algérie 1955. La bataille de la peur. Jean Brune, le journaliste (2)

Discover through this collection of articles by Jean Brune the lucid analyses of the beginning of the Algerian War, written for La Dépêche quotidienne d'Algérie between May and August 1955.

Jean Brune went to the scene to investigate the causes and extent of the rebellion, talk with the military, listen to the anxieties of the people from the bled, and question captured rebels.

From this atrocious drama, he outlines the political, economic, and especially psychological data, as close as possible to the truth. Of course, Jean Brune speaks to us as a journalist. But his descriptions of the Aurès, Sétif, Batna, the Sersou, and so many other places are nonetheless imbued with that poetic beauty that would later be found in Cette haine qui ressemble à l'amour (1961) and La Révolte (1965).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The first objective of the fellaghas was to win the "battle of fear"

Algeria facing its destiny

I. The gravity of the Algerian drama II. The constants of the Algerian problem III. The solution of the economists IV. At the sources of the French malaise V. The school, the road, the mixed communes

Psychology of terrorism

From Geneva to Sétif

Communism and the free madrasas

Muslim worship and the French State

The important small details...

With ten unpublished sketches.