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France regarded Algeria as part of France till the late 1950s insurgency, ending in Independence in 1962. A million French left Algeria and as many Algerians. This paper notes how Algerians were ambivalent about conflict, many serving the French, still seeing themselves as French citizens, and disappointed by the subsequent regime. The paper also discusses the Second Algerian War of the 1990s, ongoing Algerian migration to France, and French attitudes.

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"A century ago, the prospect of France without its province across the Mediterranean Sea was unthinkable. Many French lived with Algeria's population of Arabs, Berbers, its Jewish and varied Christian community, across a vast territory. Southern France seemed to lead on to the exotic territory of Algiers, once taken by Spain, then the Ottoman Empire, before becoming a French colony in 1830. Edward Said commented on later 19th century French imperialist dreams of a railway `ribbon' to connect French Africa to the provinces of France."

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