In a short, unbending broadcast to the nation, he accused the Algiers insurgents of striking “a stab in the back for France, before the world.” He adjured them to return to order, adapting words that had rung out in 1940: “Nothing is lost for a Frenchman when he rejoins his mother, France.” He had been brought back to lead the country, to find for Algeria “une solution qui soit française” (a phrasing that drew growls of rage at its ambiguity in Algiers), and he intended to carry through this responsibility. He closed with an expression of his “profound confidence” in Delouvrier and Challe (a confidence that, in fact, he was far from feeling as in private he criticised both for their “irresolution”). Like Challe’s, the speech made little impact in Algiers.

XREF: Connects to the broader picture of the Algerian War and De Gaulle's rhetorical approach to a destabilized colony.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1107