PREFACE

What original, and even atypical in his account, it is that it is set after the April 1961 putsch, at the time when French policy is general disengagement. After having attended the chaos of the popular mobilization in the Paris suburbs, our friend has no more illusions about the continued existence of french Algeria. Without paying attention to official directives, he organizes the transportation of school children in hostile villages, and retrieves a family from an unsafe area.
He makes an effort to prepare the population for the inevitable change ...
His sense of humanity is his priority.