78 de Beauvoir, 321.

79 Jules Roy in Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York: Penguin Books, 1987), 338.

80 My account is based on Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, 221-22. For the discursive representation of the event, and the implications of its various ideological interpretations and manifestations, see LeSueur, “Massacre at Melouza: The ‘Whodunit’ of the French-Algerian War?” 166ff.

81 Horne, 222.

82 WE, 18.