[Rockingham]

Most of the time, the French are cream puffs, but when history takes a turn, they can become remarkably bloody-minded, as the reign of terror in the French Revolution and their 1.15 million military dead in World War One demonstrate. In the event of a major outbreak of intifada style Muslim communal violence, I would not be surprised to see the French Army called in to reduce one or more offending banileus to rubble.

[Cronos]

Paris massscre of 1961

The Paris massacre of 1961 was a massacre in Paris on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French National Police attacked an illegal demonstration of some 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. Two months before, the FLN had decided to increase its bombing in France and to resume the campaign against both pro-France Algerians and the rival Algerian nationalist organization, the Algerian National Movement in France. After 37 years of denial, in 1998 the French government acknowledged 40 deaths, although there are estimates of over 200