France Wins Its War in Algeria in the 1960s

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Carl Schwamberger said:
I wonder how the Catholics in France would react to a secularization policy designed to turn citizens away from religion?
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CaliGuy said:
Didn't they indeed get a taste of this starting from 1905, though?
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Secularism had been enshrined in the constitution ever since the Revolution, and had only grown since then. Sure, there was some resistance to de-christianization, but I think a few grumbling Catholics would be worth avoiding future islamism in french territory.
 

Vrykon

If by winning you mean keeping Algeria until the present day, not going to happen without massive ethnic cleansing. Which can happen, if the General's putsch of 1961 succeeds and De Gaulle is killed. Among the organisations affiliated to the OAS were neofascists parties such as Jeune Nation.

The best you'll get to victory would be De Gaulle (or the Generals) giving Algeria independence but preventing the FLN guys from getting power and keeping a strong military and political presence. No exodus of the Pieds-Noirs and Harkis, French companies get the oil, privileged access to the market, cheap workforce. Not terribly unlikely and may benefit both countries (but especially France heh) in the long run.
 

Mightyboosh5

Probably the best shot France has is to set up some sort of military dictatorship under harki francophiles, and make the country like France's other neo colonial puppets in Africa.

If you make the pod before ww2 it's possible with an extreme fascist/reactionary France they can attempt a pacification of Libya style ethnic cleaning and take a large part of the coast but they would never want to try and retain the Sahara so really it's impossible for France to retain Algeria fully, only probably a section of it.
 
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