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National fronts?
The Algerian War began 60 years ago. Some eight years later, a new Arab nation came about – and a million Algerians of French origin fled to France. The recent successes of the extreme-right Front National have made these pieds-noirs a political factor again, as the fronts of the Algerian War retain contemporary relevance. By Jakob Krais
During her campaign for the local and European elections at the beginning of 2014, Marine Le Pen addressed an open letter to her friends, the
harkis and
pieds-noirs . It was an assessment of the former French president Charles de Gaulle, the founding father of the Fifth Republic.