Pied-Noir
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Total population | |
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1959: 1.4 million[1] (13% of the population of Algeria) Catholicism, Protestantism) Minority: Judaism and Islam |
The Pieds-Noirs (French:
From the French invasion on 18 June 1830 to its independence, Algeria was administratively part of France; its ethnic European population were simply called Algerians or colons (colonists). But the Muslim people of Algeria were called Arabs, Muslims or indigènes. The term Pied-Noir came into common use shortly before the end of the Algerian War in 1962.
As of the last census in French-ruled Algeria, taken on 1 June 1960, there were 1,050,000 non-Muslim civilians (mostly
During the Algerian War, a vast majority of Pieds-Noirs were loyalists and overwhelmingly supported colonial French rule in Algeria. They were opposed to Algerian nationalist groups such as the
After Algeria became independent in 1962, about 800,000 Pieds-Noirs of French nationality evacuated to mainland France, while about 200,000 remained in Algeria. Of the latter, there were still about 100,000 in 1965, about 50,000 by the end of the 1960s and 30,000 in 1993.
Those who moved to France suffered ostracism from some
The recent history of the Pieds-Noirs has been characterized by a sense of twofold alienation, on the one hand from the land of their birth and on the other from their adopted homeland. Though the term rapatriés d'Algérie implies that prior to Algeria they once lived in France, most Pieds-Noirs were born and raised in Algeria.Etymology
There are competing theories about the origin of the term Pied-Noir. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to "a person of European origin living in Algeria during the period of French rule, especially a French person expatriated after Algeria was granted independence in 1962".[3] The Le Robert dictionary states that in 1901 the word indicated a sailor working barefoot in the coal room of a ship, who would find his feet blackened by the soot and dust. Since in the Mediterranean this was often an Algerian native, the term was used pejoratively for Algerians until 1955, when it first began referring to "French born in Algeria" according to some sources.[10][11] The Oxford English Dictionary claims this usage originated from mainland French as a negative nickname.[3]
There is also a theory that the term comes from the black boots worn by French soldiers compared to the barefoot Algerians.[12] Other theories focus on new settlers dirtying their clothing by working in swampy areas, wearing black boots when on horseback, or trampling grapes to make wine.[13]
History
French, along with Spanish, Italian and other European settlers, moved to France's overseas colonies or territories. The largest group of one million settled in Algeria, followed by 200,000 in Morocco and proportionally fewer in other colonies. These settlers often took land that had been forcibly taken from the local population. While they had full political representation in Paris and the French government, the native population did not. Many settlers were fiercely committed to maintaining the overseas empire because they came from impoverished European backgrounds. Nearly half of the Algerian settlers in the 1880s were from Spain, southern Italy, or Malta, and the remainder were mostly poor French. They had nothing to return to if a local nationalist movement won its war of national liberation.[14]
French conquest and settlement
European settlement of Algeria began during the 1830s, after France had commenced the process of conquest with the military seizure of the city of Algiers in 1830. The invasion was instigated when the
In the 1830s the French controlled only the northern part of the country.
In 1848 Algeria was divided into three
The French modeled their colonial system on their predecessors, the Ottomans, by co-opting local tribes. In 1843 the colonists began supervising through bureaux arabes[15][20] operated by military officials with authority over particular domains.[20]
This system lasted until the 1880s and the rise of the French Third Republic, when colonisation intensified.[5] Large-scale regrouping of lands began when land-speculation companies took advantage of government policy that allowed massive sales of native property. By the 20th century Europeans held 1,700,000 hectares; by 1940, 2,700,000 hectares, about 35 to 40 percent;[15] and by 1962 it was 2,726,700 hectares representing 27 percent of the arable land[clarification needed] of Algeria.[21] Settlers came from all over the western Mediterranean region, particularly Italy, France, Spain and Malta.[4]
Identity
In Metropolitan France, Algeria was considered an integral part of French national territory, and this sentiment was largely shared by the Pied-Noir community.
The end of the French protectorate of Tunisia and of the French protectorate in Morocco in 1956 led to mass emigration of French people from both states. These two countries had been placed under protectorate, whereas Algeria and its population fell under territory status and were considered part of overseas France.
In reaction to the first
We do not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity, the integrity of the Republic. The departments of Algeria constitute a part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time and irrevocably. Their populations, who enjoy French citizenship and are represented in Parliament, have moreover given in peace, as before in war, enough proof of their attachment to France for France, in its turn, not to allow in question this unit. Between them and the metropolis, there is no conceivable secession. Never France, no government, no French Parliament, whatever their particular tendencies, will ever yield on this fundamental principle. I affirm that no comparison with Tunisia or Morocco is more false, more dangerous. Here it is France."
As the colony of Algeria grew with each generation, Pieds-Noirs began to define themselves as distinct from the French citizens of metropolitan France; they identified as Algerian people. Some Pieds-Noirs considered themselves at one time to be "true Algerians", whereas they termed Muslim Algerians as "Indigenous" peoples. An exchange between a Pied-Noir student from Algiers and a metropolitan French student was recorded during a UNEF conference in 1922:[26]
"So you're Algerian… but the son of a Frenchman, aren't you?"
"Of course! All Algerians are sons of the French, the others are natives."
However, many Pieds-Noirs avoided using the term after the Second World War so as not to be confused with indigenous Algerian migrant workers who went to France. The Pieds-Noirs themselves also used several nicknames to designate the French in metropolitan France, such as French from France, Frangaoui, Patos and sometimes Pied-Blanc (lit. 'white feet').[27]
Other terms used internally within the Pied-Noir population included Pied-Rouge (lit. 'red feet') to refer to Pied-Noir members of the Algerian Communist Party or those who held left-wing beliefs, including a minority of Pieds-Noirs sympathetic to the independence movement.[28][29] The term Pied-Gris was used to refer both to children with parentage from both metropolitan France and French Algeria, and to French settlers from independent Tunisia and Morocco who moved to French Algeria in the late 1950s rather than to France. French writer René Domergue noted that Pied-Gris was used by both French settlers from Tunisia and Morocco and the Pieds-Noirs themselves to distinguish themselves from each other.[30]
Culture, food and language
French writer Léon Isnard noted that Pieds-Noirs often mixed traditional French and occasionally Spanish and Italian cuisine with local Arab and Jewish influences. Dishes such as
Although French was the main language of the Pieds-Noirs, a distinct form of French known as pataouète developed in the Pied-Noir community in Algeria and contained words, idioms, expressions and slang terms not commonly found in Metropolitan France.[32] Ferdinand Duchene noted that pataouète was largely derived from mainland French but contained words from Spanish and Catalan (influenced by Spanish workers in Algerian during the late 1800s), as well as Italian, and local Arab dialect.[33]
Social structure
Like other white populations in colonial-era Africa, the Pieds-Noirs generally dominated much of Algeria's industrial, cultural and political institutions, comprising the most influential section of society. However, French Algeria also attracted laborers, blue collar and agricultural workers from metropolitan France, Spain, Italy and Malta in search of better economic opportunities. European manual laborers came under the Pied-Noir fold and acquired French nationality after several years of living in Algeria. As such, the Pied-Noir community contained different social classes and structures. Following the exodus to France in the aftermath of the Algerian war, working-class Pieds-Noirs were particularly scathing in response to accusations from the French political left that they were exploiters or elite colonialists over the indigenous population.[34][35]
Relationship to mainland France and Muslim Algeria
The Pied-Noir relationship with France and Algeria was marked by alienation. The settlers considered themselves French,
In Algeria, the Muslims were not considered French and did not share the same political or economic benefits of the territory. The settlers' politically and economically dominant position worsened relations between the two groups.
The Pied-Noir population as part of the total Algerian population
From roughly the last half of the 19th century until independence, the Pieds-Noirs accounted for approximately 10% of the total Algerian population. Although they constituted a numerical minority, they were undoubtedly the prime political and economic force of the region.[citation needed]
In 1959, the Pieds-Noirs numbered 1,025,000, and accounted for 10.4% of the total population of Algeria, a percentage gradually diminishing since the peak of 15.2% in 1926. However, some areas of Algeria had high concentrations of Pieds-Noirs, such as the regions of Bône (now
In the Algiers metropolitan area, Europeans accounted for 35.7% of the population. In the metropolitan area of Bône, they accounted for 40.5% of the population. The département of Oran, a rich European-developed agricultural land of 16,520 km2 (6,378 sq. miles) stretching between the cities of Oran and Sidi-Bel-Abbès, and including them, was the area of highest Pied-Noir density outside of the cities, with the Pieds-Noirs accounting for 33.6% of the population of the
Year | Algerian Population | Pied-Noir population |
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1830 | 1,500,000 | 14,000 (in 1836) |
1851 | 2,554,100 | 100,000 (in 1847) |
1960 | 10,853,000 | 1,111,000 (in 1959) |
1965 | 11,923,000 | 100,000 (in 1965) |
Jewish community
In 1870, Justice Minister
Algerian War and exodus
Algerian War
For more than a century France maintained colonial rule in Algerian territory. This allowed exceptions to republican law, including Sharia laws applied by Islamic customary courts to Muslim women, which gave women certain rights to property and inheritance that they did not have under French law.[44] Discontent among the Muslim Algerians grew after the World Wars, in which the Algerians sustained many casualties.[44] Algerian nationalists began efforts aimed at furthering equality by listing complaints in the Manifesto of the Algerian People, which requested equal representation under the state and access to citizenship, but no equality for all citizens to preserve Islamic precepts. The French response was to grant citizenship to 60,000 "meritorious" Muslims.[16]
During a reform effort in 1947, the French laws were changed to give the former French subjects with the legal status of "indigenes" full French legal citizenship. The French created an Algerian Assembly, a form of
From the first armed operations of November 1954, Pied-Noir civilians had always been targets for the FLN: they were assasinated in bombings of bars and cinemas; suffered mass massacres; and were tortured and sometimes raped on farms.[47] At the onset of the war, the Pieds-Noirs believed the French military would be able to overcome opposition. In
Once de Gaulle assumed leadership, he attempted peace by visiting Algeria within three days of his appointment, proclaiming "French Algeria!"; but in September 1959 he planned a referendum for Algerian self-determination that passed overwhelmingly.[36] Many French political and military leaders in Algeria viewed this as a betrayal and formed the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), which had much support among Pieds-Noirs. This paramilitary group began attacking officials representing de Gaulle's authority, Muslims, and de Gaulle himself.[36] The OAS was also accused of murders and bombings, which nullified any remaining reconciliation opportunities between the communities.[49] The Pieds-Noirs had never believed such reconciliation possible as their community was targeted from the start.[clarification needed][47]
The opposition culminated in the Algiers putsch of 1961, led by retired generals. After its failure, on 18 March 1962, de Gaulle and the FLN signed a cease-fire agreement, the Évian Accords, and held a referendum. In July, Algerians voted 5,975,581 to 16,534 to become independent from France.[37]
On the morning of 5 July 1962, the day Algeria became independent, seven katibas (companies) of the FLN troops entered the city and were fired at by some Europeans.
Exodus
The exodus began once it became clear that Algeria would become independent.[10] In Algiers, it was reported that by May 1961 the Pieds-Noirs morale had sunk because of violence and allegations that the entire community of French nationals had been responsible for "terrorism, torture, colonial racism, and ongoing violence in general" and because the group felt "rejected by the nation as Pieds-Noirs".[10] These factors, the Oran Massacre, and the referendum for independence caused the Pied-Noir exodus to begin in earnest.[4][6][10]
The number of Pieds-Noirs who fled Algeria totalled more than 800,000 between 1962 and 1964.
Along with the exodus of the Pieds-Noirs, the Muslim harki auxiliaries, who had fought on the French side during the Algerian War, also tried to emigrate. But of approximately 250,000 Muslim loyalists only about 90,000, including dependents, were able to escape to France. Of those who remained, many thousands were killed by lynch mobs or executed as traitors by the FLN. In contrast to the treatment of the European Pieds-Noirs, little effort was made by the French government to extend protection to the harkis or to arrange their organised evacuation.[51]
Flight to mainland France
The Government of France claimed that it had not anticipated that such a massive number would leave; it believed that perhaps 300,000 might choose to depart temporarily and that a large portion would return to Algeria.[10] The administration had set aside funds for absorption of those it called repatriates to partly reimburse them for property losses.[37] The administration avoided acknowledging the true numbers of refugees to avoid upsetting its Algeria policies.[37] Consequently, few plans were made for their return, and, psychologically at least, many of the Pieds-Noirs were alienated from both Algeria and France.[4]
Many Pieds-Noirs settled in continental France, while others migrated to New Caledonia,[52] Australia,[52] Spain,[53] Israel,[54] Argentina,[55][56] Italy, the United States and Canada.[citation needed] In France, many relocated to the south, which offered a climate similar to North Africa. The influx of new citizens bolstered the local economies; however, the newcomers also competed for jobs, which caused resentment.[6][37] One unintended consequence, with significant and ongoing political effects, was the resentment caused by the state resettlement programme for Pieds-Noirs in rural Corsica, which triggered a cultural and political nationalist movement.[57] In some ways, the Pieds-Noirs were able to integrate well into the French community, in particular relative to their harki Muslim counterparts.[58] Their resettlement was made easier by the economic boom of the 1960s. However, the ease of assimilation depended on socioeconomic class.
Integration was easier for the upper classes, many of whom found the transformation less stressful than the lower classes, whose only capital had been left in Algeria when they fled. Many were surprised at often being treated as an "underclass or outsider-group" with difficulties in gaining advancement in their careers. Also, many Pieds-Noirs contended that the money allocated by the government to assist in relocation and reimbursement was insufficient regarding their losses.[6][37]
Thus, the repatriated Pieds-Noirs frequently felt "disaffected" from French society. They also suffered from a sense of alienation stemming from the French government's changed position towards Algeria. Until independence, Algeria was legally a part of France; after independence many felt that they had been betrayed and were now portrayed as an "embarrassment" to their country or to blame for the war.[6][59] Most Pieds-Noirs felt a powerful sense of loss and a longing for their lost homeland in Algeria.[60] The American author Claire Messud remembered seeing her Pied-Noir father, a lapsed Catholic, crying while watching Pope John Paul II deliver a Mass on his TV. When asked why, Messud père replied: "Because when I last heard the mass in Latin, I thought I had a religion, and I thought I had a country."[60] Messud noted that the novelist Albert Camus, himself a Pied-Noir, had often written of his love for the sea-shores and mountains of Algeria, declaring Algeria was a place that was a part of his soul, feelings she noted mirrored those of other Pieds-Noirs for whom Algeria was the only home they had ever known.[60]
Pieds-Noirs who remained
In the aftermath of the war, some Pieds-Noirs chose to remain in Algeria; their population was recorded at standing around 200,000 in October 1962. By 1965 their population had dropped to around 50,000.[61]
Under the Algerian Nationality Code of 1963, Pieds-Noirs were permitted to obtain Algerian citizenship, but political reluctance by the FLN and the slowness of the process prompted some Pieds-Noirs to emigrate over choosing citizenship. In 1965, it was believed more than 500 ethnic European persons had applied for Algerian citizenship, with 200 having been born in Algeria.[62]
In recent decades, it has been harder to determine the total population of Pied-Noir heritage in Algeria. In 1979,
État Pied-Noir
In 2016, a group of Pied-Noir activists headed by Jacques Villard set up the Gouvernement provisoire Pied-Noir en exil (lit. 'Provisional Government of the Pied-Noir in exile') in Montpellier in response to what they argued has been marginalization against the Pied-Noir community by successive governments in France.[64] The movement has been referred to as État Pied-Noir. Since 2022, some of its members call for the establishment of an autonomous Pied-Noir national territory in Algeria or the French mainland. Some commentators have drawn parallels with the Afrikaner Volkstaat movement in South Africa.[65]
Flags
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Flag proposed by Jean-Paul Gavino[66]
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Tricolore flag with two black feet[67]
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Flag of the USDIFRA using Pied-Noir symbolism
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nationhood
The Song of the Africans
The Pied-Noir community has adopted, as both an unofficial anthem and as a symbol of its identity, Captain Félix Boyer's 1943 version of "
The "Song of the Africans" was banned from use as official military music in 1962 at the end of the Algerian War until August 1969. The
Notable Pieds-Noirs
- Louis Althusser, philosopher
- Jacques Attali, economist, writer
- Paul Belmondo, sculptor, father of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Patrick Bokanowski, filmmaker
- Patrick Bruel, singer
- Albert Camus, Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel laureate
- Étienne Daho, singer
- Jacques Derrida, philosopher
- Annie Fratellini, circus clown
- Tony Gatlif, filmmaker
- Marlène Jobert, actress and author
- Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France
- Marcel Cerdan, boxer
- Jean-François Larios, footballer
- Enrico Macias, singer
- Andrè Toubiana Varel, singer-songwriter
- Jean Pélégri, author
- Emmanuel Roblès, author
- Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
- Martial Solal, jazz pianist
- Joséphine Jobert, actress and singer
See also
- État Pied-Noir
- White Zimbabweans
- Caldoche
- Arab-Berber
- Kouloughlis
- European Moroccans
- European Tunisians
- Italian Tunisians
- Turco-Tunisians
- Italian Algerians
- Italian settlers in Libya
- French people
- White Africans of European ancestry
- White people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Retornados
- List of French possessions and colonies
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- Eldridge, Claire; Kalter, Christoph; Taylor, Becky (2022). "Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal". Past & Present.