Betrayal?

• Despite thoughts that the would defend Algeria for France, he actually agreed to Algerian independence

• No way of winning the war.

• The only compensation to the Pieds-Noirs was that they could return to France as could those Algerians who had fought for France.

• He was seen as a traitor by many Pieds-Noirs and their supporters in France

• But he managed to remove Algeria as a problem for France.