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Claire Messud
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Claire Messud is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
Messud at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Messud at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Pied-Noir
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The Pieds-Noirs are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962. Many of them departed for mainland France during and after the war by which Algeria gained its independence in 1962.
A First Communion in a Pied-Noir family in Sidi-Bel-Abbès, Colonial Algeria in the early twentieth century
A First Communion in a Pied-Noir family in Sidi-Bel-Abbès, Colonial Algeria in the early twentieth century
Bombardment of Algeria by Admiral Duperré's forces in 1830
Bombardment of Algeria by Admiral Duperré's forces in 1830
Zouaves embarking at Algiers for Tonkin, January 1885
Zouaves embarking at Algiers for Tonkin, January 1885
Three children in a wagon pulled by two donkeys, c. 1905. The first Pieds-Noirs were the children of personnel of the French Army of Africa.
Three children in a wagon pulled by two donkeys, c. 1905. The first Pieds-Noirs were the children of personnel of the French Army of Africa.