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Does anyone know about the "Pied-Noir" ? Also called "Black Feet"...They were French settlers who went to Algeria when it was a French Colony to farm. After it was given up by the French, quite a few returned to France, a place later generations had never even seen. They were not exactly welcomed in France and were considered "foreigners" and as competing for jobs. I am wondering if there are any books on them.
I was working as a copy boy for a newspaper in 60-61 when the situation came to a boil. As I remember the Pieds-Noirs were not just French, but included a substantial amount of people of Italian and Spanish origin.
The girl I know was born in France, but her parents and grandparents and beyond were "Black Feet" and she still calls herself that (she is mid 30's) Is there still discrimination against them?
Does anyone know about the "Pied-Noir" ? Also called "Black Feet"...They were French settlers who went to Algeria when it was a French Colony to farm. After it was given up by the French, quite a few returned to France, a place later generations had never even seen. They were not exactly welcomed in France and were considered "foreigners" and as competing for jobs. I am wondering if there are any books on them.
They come up a lot in Simon Murray's Legionnaire, his fairly famous autobio about his days with the Legion during the Algerian War of Independence. Excellent reading even without that specific connection, as Murray does a very entertaining job. What Murray makes clear is that a lot of Legion officers sympathized with the pieds-noirs.
Pied Noirs were French settlers in Algeria. They live in Marseilles, South France, around Perpignan and in Alicante, Spain. Pied Noirs are a hard working and god fearing people back stabbed by a pompous and dictatorial petit maître called De Gaulle.
Pied Noirs were French settlers in Algeria. They live in Marseilles, South France, around Perpignan and in Alicante, Spain. Pied Noirs are a hard working and god fearing people back stabbed by a pompous and dictatorial petit maître called De Gaulle.
Pied Noirs were French settlers in Algeria. They live in Marseilles, South France, around Perpignan and in Alicante, Spain. Pied Noirs are a hard working and god fearing people back stabbed by a pompous and dictatorial petit maître called De Gaulle.
Of course, had the Algerian war never taken place, it would have remained a French possession and never (even in light of all the other colonial states in Africa doing the same) achieved independence. Naturally.
They come up a lot in Simon Murray's Legionnaire, his fairly famous autobio about his days with the Legion during the Algerian War of Independence. Excellent reading even without that specific connection, as Murray does a very entertaining job. What Murray makes clear is that a lot of Legion officers sympathized with the pieds-noirs.
Thanks I will definitely get this book. It's important for me to know more about this era.
This sort of reminds me of a group of people mostly residing in Appalachia that refer to themselves as "Melungeons." There is some question as to the origins of these people.
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I will definitely get this book. It's important for me to know more about this era.
