Etat Pied-Noir

État Pied-Noir refers to the claim made by certain Pied-Noir persons and organisations to sovereignty and nationhood.

Fédération des Deux Rives

Flag
Motto: La paix pour seul combat !
Anthem: Tu Al Mare
CapitalSisyphe
Official languagesFrench
Ethnic groups
Pied-Noir
Religion
Officially secular, Roman Catholic majority, Jewish minority
GovernmentProvisional government
• Head of Government
Jacques Villard
Establishment
• Declared
2016

History

The Pied-Noir are a people of European-origin born in French-occupied North Africa and, in particular, Algeria. They left en masse as French citizens at the end of the Algerian war and settled mostly in the south of France. Although French, the Pieds-Noirs were largely descended from Spanish, Italian and Maltese settlers as well as French. They have nevertheless remained for the most part fiercely loyal to France throughout the history of French Algeria and its aftermath. There have, however, been occasional expressions of autonomism and even separatism, particularly around the fall of the Second Empire and again at the fall of French rule in Algeria.[1]

Provisional government

The Gouvernement provisoire Pied-Noir en exil was created on 1 October 2016 in Montpellier by a small group of veteran Pied-Noir activists in response to what they saw as marginalization by successive French governments.[2] A written constitution was formalised the following year in Nice. This document outlines the aims of peace and neutrality as well as the basis for Pied-Noir sovereignty as claimed in international law.[3] The GPPNE has expressed a desire for membership of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization[4] and even to acquire a territory in the Mediterranean region, although they have made no specific territorial claims.[5]

See also

References
  1. Hourant, Georges-Pierre. "Autonomisme et séparatisme chez les Français d'Algérie". Cercle Algérianiste. In l'Algérianiste n°90 de juin 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. "Accueil". BLOG OFFICIEL DU GOUVERNEMENT PROVISOIRE PIED-NOIR EN EXIL.
  3. "Constitution officielle de La Fédération des Deux Rives – Etat Pied Noir" (PDF).
  4. "COMMUNIQUE DU GPPNE DU 25 AVRIL 2017".
  5. Laurent, Agnès. "Et voici le gouvernement pied-noir en exil". L'Express. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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