Les écrivains pieds-noirs face à la guerre d’Algérie (1954-1962). Albert Camus - Jean Brune - Roger Curel - Robert Merle - Janine Montupet - Marcel Moussy - Jean Pélégri - Emmanuel Roblès - André Rosfelder - Jules Roy

Preface by Maurice Calmein.

On November 1, 1954, the Algerian War began with a series of attacks. The French army responded violently to the terrorism of the Front de liberation nationale (F.L.N.) against their fellow Muslims and the Pied-Noir population.

Despite his promises and the military success of the "Challe Plan" in 1959 and 1960, Charles de Gaulle eventually abandoned Algeria. The F.L.N. did not respect the Evian Accords: it kidnapped and killed thousands of Pieds-Noirs. All that remained for them was the exodus. The fate of the Harkis and other Muslim auxiliaries was even worse: more than 100,000 of them were massacred by the "victors."

The reaction of Pied-Noir writers to the Algerian War was far from unanimous. In their works written between 1955 and 1962, they took – according to their political leanings – different positions regarding this existential conflict.

404 pages

France-Algeria Collection 19