Sentence examples for noirs from inspiring English sources

In Algeria the pieds noirs [French settlers] thought that they actually lived in a country called French Algeria and that this was their homeland, even if it was only a fantasy.

The pieds noirs cultivated a different identity from that of mainland Frenchmen.

He has just given a speech at the UK's CFA conference on one of his bete noirs, efficient market theory.

When the pieds noirs, French settlers in Algeria, returned home in the 1960s, many of them went to live in Marseille.

November 12 , 1904Paris, France December 19, 1977 Bergerac, France Jacques Tourneur, (born November 12 , 1904 Paris, France died December 19, 1977, Bergerac) French American filmmaker of broad range known for horror, film noirs, and westerns.

Considered by many to be the greatest of Mann's noirs, Raw Deal (1948) was about a convict (Dennis O'Keefe) breaking out of prison to avenge himself on his partner (Burr) who had framed him.

The settlers who came to work in Algeria from the European mainland were known as pieds-noirs – black feet – because, unlike the Muslim population, they wore shoes.

As the pieds-noirs grew in number and status, the native Algerians, who had no nationality under French law, did not officially exist.

Inside the church, a handful of elderly pieds-noirs were at prayer.

What preoccupies Ms Messud most, though, is pre-American life, with its implants of stories inherited and imagined, its baggage of history.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.

They divide not only French and Algerians, but the French and the pieds-noirs, white settlers who fled after independence with their belongings in a suitcase.