Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Témoignages des Français de Tunisie et Maroc / Testimonials from the French citizens of Tunisia and Morocco

Another youtube video picked up by Google Alerts, "Les Français d'Afrique du Nord" interviews early exiles from Tunisia and Morocco who were forced to leave in 1958. I especially appreciated the descriptions of cultural (or more specifically, agricultural) differences between North Africa and France. René Domergue provides a detailed exploration of these differences through testimonials in his work, L'Intégration des Pieds-Noirs dans les villages du Midi (Harmattan, 2006).