Ex-pieds noirs are said to have objected to the radical nationalist sympathies of the exhibition's original director.

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

They were members of the group known as pieds noirs ("black feet"), immigrants of mainly, but not exclusively, French descent.

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

The Labasse family are pieds-noirs from Algeria, repatriated to the south of France where father and grandfather Labasse own and run a hotel, alternately a source of pride and of growing domestic tension.

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