Well, at least my ancestors who left France to invade England. They were successful. Here's to the Normands!!
The rest of the family got out with les Huguenots.
And let's not forget he food.
Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I am a PiedNoir, white african from algeria. We had been there since 1840, of course big colonialists, family of fishermen. If you want to see and maybe learn the other side, go to our website : www.algerie-francaise.org and click on "english documents" which are really french docus translated in english. Look at the pics and see what the FLN really did not only against us but also against their own people. Also you have the massacre in Oran on 5th July 62, from algerian sources more than 15,000 (Out of 200,000) PiedNoirs were butchered in 6 hours. Also the sac of Bab-el-Oued by the french army and the massacre of 26 march62 in Isly street, 82 killed 200 wounded, these "glorious " actions from the french army against us the PNs.
As for Benjamin Stora, he is just an over rated scribbler who pretend to be an historian. His analisys is always put in question by others.
As for the harkis, the real number, this from secret french gov reports, is close to 80,000 butchered after independance. For PNs the figure from march to august 62 is 25,000 out of 1 million.
We can't even get justice, nor for us nor for our harkis friends. So all left to us is to scream the truth and as usual fight alone against the world, but this we are well used to do.
As I am a revisionist, I apply this to all history, including the algerian war.
One last note for those who do not know us: I, as well as a lot of PN, have no hate toward the arabs; the FLN terrorist yes no problem, I find one I run him over. But for myself like many other PNs we owe our life to arab friends. During the Oran massacre some arab got killed trying to protect their PN friends, somem went into the brothels, the camps to get their PN friends out.
Arriba Bab-el-Oued Vive l'OAS