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    The pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'black feet'; sg.: pied-noir) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who...
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    message to the pieds-noirs was "a suitcase or a coffin" ("La valise ou le cercueil"), repurposing a slogan first coined years earlier by pied-noir "ultras"...
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    "PIEDS-NOIRS- La colère contre la gauche". babelouedstory.com. Retrieved 21 July 2022. "Les Pieds Noirs". Fédération des Deux Rives, Etat Pied Noir (in...
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  • Arab mob swept into the pied-noir neighbourhoods, which had already been largely vacated, and attacked the remaining pieds-noirs. The violence lasted several...
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    of the twentieth century, through the French colonial empire and the Pieds-Noirs of Algeria. In 2020, couscous was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural...
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  • This is a list of notable pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'black feet'), a term referring to French citizens who lived in French Algeria before...
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  • European settlers known as Pieds-Noirs. These massacres were then followed by reprisals by the French army and Pieds-Noirs vigilantes, which resulted...
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    Such actions greatly angered the pieds-noirs and their military supporters. He faced uprisings in Algeria by the pied-noirs and the French armed forces. On...
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    became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, as Algerian immigrants and the pieds-noirs of Algeria settled in the country and opened small shops and restaurants...
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  • This was the exodus for the pieds noirs. On the eve and during Algerian independence in 1962, more than one million Pied-Noir settlers of French nationality...
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    soubressade can only be found in continental France, in butcher shops run by Pieds-Noirs. Algerians however, enjoy a halal version of the soubressade made with...
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    monarchy and King Louis-Phillipe in 1848. The settlers, commonly called "Pieds- Noirs" or "Blackfeet", began to demand more acknowledgement of the French government...
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    of European immigrants. They were first known as colons, and later as pieds-noirs, a term applying especially to ethnic Europeans born there. The indigenous...
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    Argentella mines, the immigration of 18,000 former settlers from Algeria ("Pieds-Noirs") in the eastern plains, and continuing chemical pollution (Fanghi Rossi)...
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    were victimized by endemic racism. By 2012, however, 800,000 Harkis, Pieds-Noirs and their descendants over the age of 18 lived in France. French President...
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    of remigration often use the historical example of the expulsion of Pieds-Noirs from Algeria in 1962 as a successful past instance of organized forced...
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  •  The Suitcase or the Coffin) is a 2011 French documentary about the pieds-noirs who fled from French Algeria to mainland France after the Évian Accords...
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  • the demographic strain caused by First World War. Notes: Essentially Pieds-Noirs who resettled in Corsica after the independence of Tunisia, Morocco and...
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    Advocacy groups: Gioventura Piemontèisa Etat Pied-Noir Ethnic group: Pieds-Noirs Political party: Etat Pied-Noir Status: Active (Established in 2016) Proposed...
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    independence to Algeria and marked the beginning of the exodus of the pieds-noirs, and in Jean Bastien-Thiry's 1962 assassination attempt against president...
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    Sub-Saharan Africans after 1945; Maghrebi Jews in the 1950s and 1960s; the Pieds-Noirs from the former French Algeria in 1962; and then from Comoros. At the...
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    Eva Green (category Pieds-noirs)
    Les Pieds-noirs, Emmanuel Roblès, (P. Lebaud, Paris: 1982), 137: "Marlène Jobert est née également à Alger, mais peut-on la considérer comme une pied-noir"...
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    Roger Hanin (category Pieds-noirs)
    dramedy about the pieds-noirs exodus in Metropolitan France and Le Grand pardon, a gangster film about the French Jewish pied-noir mafia. Both films were...
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    conflict began with attacks by the FLN against the French forces and Pieds-Noirs (European settlers) followed by a terrorist attack on Algerian civilians...
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    1950s and 1960s, vast housing estates were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs (French settlers from Algeria) and Jews who had left Algeria due to its...
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    and eggs and often contains anise, sesame, orange or other citrus. The Pieds noirs, who introduced it into France in the 1960s, tend to eat it at Easter...
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    Albert Camus (category Pieds-noirs)
    "Latiny", a popular pro-fascist and antisemitic ideology among other pieds-noirs – French or Europeans born in Algeria. For Camus, this vision encapsulated...
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    France. The next largest wave came in the 1960s when around 1.6 million pieds noirs returned to France following the independence of its Northwest African...
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    origins in metropolitan France. There is also a community of about 2,000 pieds noirs, descended from European settlers in France's former North African colonies;...
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  • substantial European settler population emerged in Algeria known as the Pieds-Noirs. Seeking to expand their influence beyond Algeria, the French established...
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