noted, during the national holiday of Quebec, the cosmopolitan spirit that does not condemn patriotism, it is however more critical. contrasting interventions by General Charles de Gaulle in Algeria (1958) and Quebec (1967) provide food for thought here.
In Algeria, in 1958, nine million Algerians of other origins the French were under the tutelage of a million French and Algerians of French descent. While a consolidation of the separatist currents within the colony (which all groups had the same rights), that the intervention of General de Gaulle that the colonial powers have used with the primary objective of Emerging quell the revolt. At the start of the French reaction, General contended among other things:
June 4, at the Forum in Algiers:
"Good! From all this I note, on behalf of France! And I said that from today, France considers that in all of Algeria there is only one class of people. There are only full French. The French full with the same rights and duties ... "
June 6, Oran:
" Algeria is French soil, organically, today and forever "
"He left this beautiful land of Algeria an exemplary movement of renewal and fellowship. He rose from the earth experienced a breath and bruised admirable, above the sea, came to spend the whole of France to remind him what was his purpose ... It is primarily because of you she commissioned me ... But what you have done for her, she should respond by doing here what is his duty, that is to say that it has considered, from one end to another of Algeria in all categories in all the communities that inhabit this earth, only one case of children. There is no longer here, I declare in his name and I'll my word that the French full-fledged, compatriots, brothers who now walk in life by holding hands! (...) Mostaganem, thank you. Thank you from the heart, the heart of a man who knows he is one of the heaviest responsibilities of the story ... Mostaganem Cheers! Long live French Algeria! Vive la Republique! Vive la France! "
Algeria is released from the General will have to wait. Because it finally turned back positions. It was probably a clever expression of nationalism French. The latter is manifested in appearance at least, against the autonomy of the colony in Africa. The Qu SOR écois would they similarly had to fight this first Gaullist reflex, had they joined the former empire ? This type of question - for all practical purposes useless - n'int e drought that only historians, but he throws slanting a little light the double talk of those who, p éremptoirement, claimed define the imprisonment of Quebecers in 1967. Happy c e the e vibrations!
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