Abstract

Colonized in 1830 and declared «French territory» in 1848, crossed by autonomist tensions since the First World War, then chosen by Charles De Gaulle in 1943 as the driving force of the Liberation but struck in the post-war period by harsh repression of the independence movements which resulted in a conflict with the motherland that lasted eight years (1954-1962), Algeria has for almost two centuries been the mirror of the contradictions of French politics. Still, today enveloped in an intertwining of memorial contrasts, not at all pacified on the reconstruction and analysis of the item