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Algeria
Many in France did not wish to give in to terrorism or to abandon the Pieds-Noirs
- Family and cultural connections
There were thoughts that the French government would give in
- like they had after Dien Bien Phu
Generals and officials sympathetic to the Pieds-Noirs planned a military takeover of France with the idea of handing power to Charles De Gaulle
- The French general given enormous credit for leading the Free French Forces in WW2
- He was felt to be suitably patriotic, respected and uncontaminated to the then French Government