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...
57 KB (6,187 words) - 23:43, 29 October 2024
Algerian War (redirect from Exodus of the Pieds-Noirs and Harkis)
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"...
184 KB (21,929 words) - 10:50, 22 October 2024
Arab mob swept into the pied-noir neighbourhoods, which had already been largely vacated, and attacked the remaining pieds-noirs. The violence lasted several...
12 KB (1,266 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2024
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...
4 KB (384 words) - 23:44, 29 October 2024
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...
30 KB (3,132 words) - 12:52, 22 October 2024
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...
170 KB (19,846 words) - 13:17, 25 October 2024
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...
6 KB (462 words) - 08:59, 31 August 2024
European settlers, known as pieds-Noirs. The massacres were then followed by reprisals by the French army and pied-noir vigilantes, which resulted in...
27 KB (3,114 words) - 14:57, 23 October 2024
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...
4 KB (418 words) - 16:46, 18 August 2024
monarchy and King Louis-Phillipe in 1848. The settlers, commonly called "Pieds- Noirs" or "Blackfeet", began to demand more acknowledgement of the French government...
31 KB (3,589 words) - 13:18, 5 August 2024
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...
26 KB (3,175 words) - 03:34, 22 October 2024
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...
7 KB (697 words) - 17:35, 6 May 2024
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...
139 KB (15,693 words) - 01:44, 31 October 2024
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...
46 KB (4,499 words) - 08:41, 30 October 2024
Argentella mines, the immigration of 18,000 former settlers from Algeria ("Pieds-Noirs") in the eastern plains, and continuing chemical pollution (Fanghi Rossi)...
73 KB (6,703 words) - 19:11, 24 October 2024
independence to Algeria and marked the beginning of the exodus of the pieds-noirs (ethnic Europeans born in Algeria), and in Jean Bastien-Thiry's 1962...
32 KB (3,605 words) - 12:36, 4 October 2024
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...
126 KB (10,668 words) - 13:12, 28 October 2024
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"...
66 KB (4,992 words) - 22:00, 2 November 2024
Advocacy groups: Gioventura Piemontèisa Etat Pied-Noir Ethnic group: Pieds-Noirs Political party: Etat Pied-Noir Status: Active (Established in 2016) Proposed...
149 KB (9,816 words) - 20:35, 27 October 2024
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...
3 KB (221 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
conflict began with attacks by the FLN against the French forces and Pieds-Noirs (European settlers) followed by a terrorist attack on Algerian civilians...
32 KB (3,928 words) - 20:33, 2 November 2024
substantial European settler population emerged in Algeria known as the Pieds-Noirs. Seeking to expand their influence beyond Algeria, the French established...
4 KB (411 words) - 20:43, 22 October 2024
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...
62 KB (7,240 words) - 22:03, 22 October 2024
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;...
149 KB (13,006 words) - 23:52, 25 October 2024
poor and nationalist rural population, and led to Algerian attacks on pieds-noirs in the Sétif countryside (Kherrata, Chevreul). These resulted in the...
26 KB (2,692 words) - 19:02, 23 October 2024
perception that they would not be respected led to the exodus of one million pieds-noirs and harkis. Between 350.000 and 1 million Algerians are estimated to...
6 KB (611 words) - 23:20, 24 October 2024
the demographic strain caused by First World War. Notes: Essentially Pieds-Noirs who resettled in Corsica after the independence of Tunisia, Morocco and...
30 KB (3,017 words) - 02:23, 6 October 2024
Bernard-Henri Lévy (category Pieds-noirs)
Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy (/leɪˈviː/, French: [bɛʁnaʁ ɑ̃ʁi ʒɔʁʒ levi]; born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France...
43 KB (4,526 words) - 11:54, 13 October 2024
of Bab El Oued, killing between 50 and 80 Pied-Noir civilians. In response to news of the massacre, Pied-Noirs began a mass exodus from Algeria to Metropolitan...
10 KB (1,120 words) - 20:02, 30 October 2024
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...
18 KB (1,664 words) - 18:20, 6 October 2024