Algerian suites, by Jacques Ferrandez: the story is not over

The history of Algeria since independence is little known or poorly known, burdened with taboos, partisan passions, and it took a good dose of courage to undertake to tell it.

Jacques Ferrandez rose to the challenge.

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Algiers, November 1, 2019. All Saints Day. A man, a Frenchman, Paul-Yanis, graying hair, but still young, goes to the cemetery on the grave of his paternal grandmother. Pied-noir, she had returned to die in 1965 on the land where she was born. On November 1, 2019, anniversary of the founding insurrection of the FLN in 1954, a huge crowd marches through the streets of Algiers.

"Give us back our independence,"

chant the demonstrators to the Algerian regime. This hopeful crowd reminds Paul-Yanis of the one that stood up in the same streets in 1988 - before the Algerian army cracked down on it, killing more than 100 people. That year, Paul-Yanis, a young journalist on French television, volunteered to cover

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