On the front page: the sixtieth anniversary of true-false
It is today, at noon, that Emmanuel Macron in the Elysée Palace will give a speech which Le Parisien qualifies as much more of a "balancing act" than a ceasefire, the date of…
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Algeria’s war
The Origins of Algerian Literature: Five Questions to Ask
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It tells of the conditions for the emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s when the country plunged into a brutal war of liberation. The first generation of Algerian novelists and poets paved the way between the militant and the aesthetic imperative and founded a modern and inventive literature in its form and close to the misery and aspirations of their people in…
the “memory file” must be processed in one way
March 19 is celebrated in Algeria as "Victory Day". It corresponds to the day of the ceasefire, the day after the Evian agreements that put an end to more than 7 years of war of independence, 60 years ago. As of Friday, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…
The Association of Former Conscripts in Algeria is trying
If the Algerian war deeply affected a generation of Frenchmen, it is also because every family was confronted with it, by conscripts being sent from the contingent. About 1.5 million young people did all or part of their military service there, for what were…