De Gaulle recognized colonial administration's era was ending [fact]
In Algeria, "We shall not have the Algerians with us, if they do not want that themselves…. The era of the European administration of the indigenous peoples has run its course."
XREF: Connects to general decolonization literature and France's broader retreat from empire in the 1950s-60s.
Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1036