• The Manifesto of the 121 (French: Manifeste des 121), was an open letter signed by 121 intellectuals and published on 6 September 1960 in the magazine...
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  • The Manifesto of the 343 (French: Manifeste des 343) is a French petition penned by Simone de Beauvoir, and signed by 343 women, all publicly declaring...
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  • Jean Martin (category French military personnel of the First Indochina War)
    political leftist, and was fired from the Théâtre National Populaire for signing the manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian War. He was also blacklisted...
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    weapons of mass destruction Frantz Fanon History of the Armée de l'Air in the colonies (1939–1962) Independence Day (Algeria) Manifesto of the 121 Mokrani...
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  • widely credited with being one of the main authors of the important "Manifesto of the 121", named after the number of its signatories, who included Jean-Paul...
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    Claude Lanzmann (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121. Lanzmann was the chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, founded...
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  • for signing the manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian War. Martin was a veteran; he had served in a paratroop regiment during the Indochina War and...
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  • also wrote an introduction to Anne Desclos's Story of O and was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121. His book Feu de braise (1959) was published in 1971...
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    poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924...
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  • Resnais had signed Jean-Paul Sartre's Manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian War, but it won the Golden Lion at the 22nd Venice International Film Festival...
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    Laurent Schwartz (category Academic staff of the University of Paris)
    From 1961 to 1963 the École polytechnique suspended his right to teach, because of his having signed the Manifesto of the 121 about the Algerian war, a...
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  • A professor of his, Jan Czarnecki, was a progressive Protestant who would become a signer of the Manifesto of the 121. After visiting the Husserl Archive...
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    before the war. He lived in Paris and used to spend part of the year at Salses in the Pyrenees. In 1960, he was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in...
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    signed the Manifesto of the 121, published in L'Express in 1960. Although the use of torture quickly became well-known and was opposed by the left-wing...
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    Alain Robbe-Grillet (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    Guadeloupe, and Morocco. In 1960, he was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in support of the Algerian struggle for independence. He died in 2008 in...
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    Françoise Sagan (category Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343)
    career as a novelist. In 1960, at the height of the Algerian war, she signed the Manifesto of the 121. In retaliation, the extreme right-wing terrorist organization...
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    Alain Resnais (category Counterculture of the 1950s)
    construction in cinema. At the beginning of the 1960s France remained deeply divided by the Algerian War, and in 1960 the Manifesto of the 121, which protested...
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    September 1960 (category Months in the 1960s)
    of Louisiana, died nine days after being elected to Congress. Long had gone to the hospital after polls closed on August 27. The Manifesto of the 121...
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    stance on the Israel–Hamas war; one to the Green Party of England and Wales; and one to the Conservatives. The Conservative Party was reduced to 121 seats...
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  • of 1956. He was member of the Spartacus group (1961-1963) alongside Roger Langlais and Bernard Pécheur. In 1961, he signed the "Manifesto of the 121"...
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  • Dionys Mascolo (category French people of Italian descent)
    policy, especially the Algerian War, Mascolo was among the signatories of the Manifesto of the 121 in September 1960. As a writer, Mascolo was very much...
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  • Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Algerian War. This list does not include documentaries...
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  • of the Manifesto of the 121, in which a group of intellectuals had declared opposition to the French government's military policy in Algeria.) At the midpoint...
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    number of different functions during the Algerian War (1954–1962). The majority of Muslim women who became active participants did so on the side of the National...
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    Édouard Pignon (category Communist members of the French Resistance)
    condemning the suppression of the Hungarian uprising. In 1960, he was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 121. Throughout the 1960s and 70s...
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  • In the 1960s he contributed to Arts, L'Express, and Lettres nouvelles, and signed the Manifesto of the 121 opposing the use of torture during the Algerian...
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  • The "Manifesto of the Ninety-Three" (‹See Tfd›German: Manifest der 93; originally "To the Civilized World," An die Kulturwelt!, by "Professors of Germany")...
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    Mostéfa Merarda (category People of the Algerian War)
    acting chief of Wilayah I during the Algerian War. The second of his siblings, he was educated at a school in the town of Batna. At the age of 17, he married...
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  • Pierre Vidal-Naquet (category Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)
    torture by the French Army during the Algerian War (1954–62). Along with Jean-Paul Sartre and 119 others, he signed the Manifesto of the 121, a call for...
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  • book and wrote the dialogues for Seven Days... Seven Nights directed by Peter Brook in 1960. In 1960, he signed the Manifesto of the 121 entitled "Declaration...
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