• Thumbnail for Pieds-noirs
    The pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'black feet'; sg.: pied-noir) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who...
    57 KB (6,196 words) - 08:24, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Algerian War
    message to the pieds-noirs was "a suitcase or a coffin" ("La valise ou le cercueil"), repurposing a slogan first coined years earlier by pied-noir "ultras"...
    184 KB (21,932 words) - 14:16, 23 September 2024
  • This is a list of notable pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'black feet'), a term referring to French citizens who lived in French Algeria before...
    4 KB (374 words) - 17:25, 25 August 2024
  • Arab mob swept into the pied-noir neighbourhoods, which had already been largely vacated, and attacked the remaining pieds-noirs. The violence lasted several...
    12 KB (1,266 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Couscous
    of the twentieth century, through the French colonial empire and the Pieds-Noirs of Algeria. In 2020, couscous was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural...
    30 KB (3,132 words) - 12:30, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles de Gaulle
    Such actions greatly angered the pieds-noirs and their military supporters. He faced uprisings in Algeria by the pied-noirs and the French armed forces. On...
    170 KB (19,846 words) - 18:43, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Remigration
    of remigration often use the historical example of the expulsion of Pieds-Noirs from Algeria in 1962 as a successful past instance of organized forced...
    46 KB (4,495 words) - 19:40, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Merguez
    became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, as Algerian immigrants and the pieds-noirs of Algeria settled in the country and opened small shops and restaurants...
    6 KB (462 words) - 08:59, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harki
    were victimized by endemic racism. By 2012, however, 800,000 Harkis, Pieds-Noirs and their descendants over the age of 18 lived in France. French President...
    26 KB (3,134 words) - 13:19, 27 July 2024
  • This was the exodus for the pieds noirs. On the eve and during Algerian independence in 1962, more than one million Pied-Noir settlers of French nationality...
    4 KB (418 words) - 16:46, 18 August 2024