Résultats pour "france" dans Afrique

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused the fall of six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict, and as many European settlers were driven into exile. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one.

L'entrée, en 2015, de Germaine Tillion au Panthéon a consacré un itinéraire remarquable. Après avoir mené des recherches ethnologiques dans l'Aurès, Germaine Tillion s'engage dès 1940 dans la Résistance ; elle est arrêtée, sur dénonciation, en 1942, est emprisonnée puis déportée à Ravensbrück où elle vit et voit l'horreur pendant 18 mois.

French Senegal: The History of the French Colony and Senegal’s Transition to Independence examines how France established the colony, and how that colony affected events in the 20th century before Senegal became a modern nation.