[JasonC]

One politician, not plural. A general. And by the end, the French army was blasting the pied noir (French) quarter with dive bombers and tanks, to deal with the OAS. The ones who fought hard until the end were the Harkis, the loyalist Muslims. Until the French disarmed them and handed them over to the FLN. There is no way that war can be portrayed as reflecting any honor on French arms.