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In his personal account of service in the French Army in Algeria, Lieutenant in Algeria, the well-known French publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber describes a scene that in retrospect assumes the quality of metaphor. It concerns but one small ground action undertaken by the French.
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Lieutenant in Algeria, trans. Ronald Matthews (New York, 1957), pp. 42–8.
De Gaulle, speech printed in Le Monde 31 December 1959, trans. and reprinted in Roy C. Macridis, De Gaulle: Implacable Ally (New York, 1966), p. 90.
Delavignette in Robert Delavignette and Charles-André Julien, eds, Les constructeurs de la France d’Outre-mer (Paris, 1946), p. 47.
Stanley Hoffmann in Stanley Hoffmann et al., In Search of France (New York, 1963), p. 15.
Frequently quoted and from a celebrated speech given on 27 August 1946, this statement is found in Marshall, op. cit., p. 252. In addition to Marshall on the colonial empire and the constitutional arrangements of the Fourth Republic, see Gordon Wright, The Reshaping of French Democracy, (New York, 1948).
Emile Tersen, Histoire de la colonisation (Paris, 1950), p. 127.
Cited in Bernard Fall, The Two Viet-Nams (2nd ed., London, 1967), p. 52.
Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, Vol. II (New York, Macmillan, 1948), p. 1235.
Sartre, ‘Préface’, Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington (New York, 1966), p. 9.
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Betts, R.F. (1991). Caution and Confusion. In: France and Decolonisation 1900–1960. The Making of 20th Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27933-3_6
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