[Jimmy Valentine]

Someone is going to play Napoleon very soon if this keeps up.

I predict that if this goes on a little longer and spreads to the more wealthy arrondissments, someone is going to declare martial law and send in the regular army.

Going to be a lot of those little "pieds noirs" get hurt.

"Nous L'aurons!, Nous L'aurons! Napoleon!"

[DB]

And then what happens to French assets and French citizens living in Muslim countries?

I think I'd get out fast.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

They need a whiff of grapeshot.

[JasonC]

Um, "pied noirs" refered to the European settlers in North Africa, not North African immigrants in France.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Going to be a lot of those little "pieds noirs" get hurt.

I thought the Pied Noir were the ethnic French Colonials in Algeria. I've read that the term came from the black boots that the Frenchmen wore when they rode out to check on the vinyards and olive groves.

Michael Frazier