By 1954 it was estimated that, of the Muslims, only one boy in five was attending school, and one in sixteen among girls (though in some country areas the ratio could rise as high as one in seventy); illiteracy (in French) was set at ninety-four per cent for the males, ninety-eight per cent for the females.

QUESTION: These starkly low enrollment and literacy figures for Algerian Muslims in 1954 raise the question of what the comparable figures were for European settlers and how the French administration justified this disparity.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 180