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A 4 page essay that examines the position of Albert Camus, the famous French existentialist philosopher was born and raised in French Algiers, a Pied noir and a liberal, regarding the Algerian War. The writer shows that his stance on the Algerian War was reasoned and fair to both sides, but ultimately unworkable because the political issues relative to the Algerian situation rested primarily on France's perceived place in the post-war world rather than on issues of justice for the majority of the Algerian population. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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France for a century (Gildea 161). Roughly a million Algerians, who were known a the "Pieds noirs," were of European extraction, spoke French and were considered to be full-fledged French
citizens (Gildea 162). However, the nine million other residents of Algeria were second-class citizens and limited in their participation in their own government. Albert Camus, the famous French existentialist philosopher
was born and raised in French Algiers, a Pied noir and a liberal. His stance on the Algerian War was reasoned and fair to both sides, but ultimately unworkable because
the political issues relative to the Algerian situation rested primarily on Frances perceived place in the post-war world rather than on issues of justice for the majority of the Algerian
population. In March 1943, Algerian nationalists under Ferhat Abbas issued a manifesto to the French government demanding an autonomous Algerian state (Gildea 17). De Gaulle organized a conference of colonial
governors at Brazzaville to determine a structure for new French union, which would supercede the old pre-war imperialist framework, giving the impression that liberation was at hand (Gildea 17). However,
the idea of self-government for French colonies was dismissed. The French were prepared to offer greater liberty to an "assimilated Francophile elite," but the French government did not understand that
the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in regards to Algeria, that he could not
"approve, either, a policy of surrender that would abandon the Arab people to an even greater misery, tear the French in Algeria from their century-old roots, and favor, to no
ones advantage the new imperialism now threatening the liberty of France and of the West" (Camus 111). In his writing on this topic, Camus argues against atrocities committed by both
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