Landing in Oranie on the morning of the 9th in pouring rain, de Gaulle had an immediate shock in his first stop at the small town of Ain-Témouchent. Some 5,000 pieds noirs were mustered, waving hostile placards and sounding out on whistles and car hooters the familiar "dit-dit-dit, dah-dah" of Algérie française. De Gaulle betrayed only a gesture of annoyance at the loud chants of "à bas de Gaulle!"; then, to the horror of Government-Delegate Morin and his escort, he strode off into the crowd to shake hands with a minority group of Muslims who, in antithesis, were shouting: "Algérie algérienne…Vive de Gaulle!"

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1299