This article is taken from
Figaro Histoire "The bloody twilight of French Algeria"
, find in this issue
a special file on this still burning subject, 60 years after the Evian agreements.
Figaro Histoire “The bloody twilight of French Algeria”.
Le Figaro.
Olivier Dard is a professor of contemporary history at Sorbonne University in Paris. He has notably published Journey to the Heart of the OAS (Perrin, “Tempus”, 2011). He also co-directed, with Anne Dulphy, Uprooted, exiled, repatriated? End of colonial empires and migrations (Peter Lang, 2020), and Uprooted, exiled, repatriated? End of colonial empires and migrations II: Organize, transmit, tell stories (Peter Lang, 2022).
What was the genesis of the Evian agreements?
On March 18, 1962, the “
Evian talks
” (this is the official formula) were signed between French and Algerian negotiators, opening the final phase of the Algerian war.
To reach these agreements, the negotiations had been long.
The first session of the Evian conference had indeed opened on May 20, 1961, after the putsch of…
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