Thus, layer by layer, had the onion of French demands been peeled in the face of Algerian refusal to compromise: first, the French insistence on a prior cease-fire; then her refusal to recognise the G.P.R.A. as the sole interlocuteur valable; then de Gaulle’s requirement of a four years’ hiatus between a cease-fire and “self-determination”; then the Sahara, and then the safeguard of dual nationality for the pieds noirs. And so on.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1595