Lagaillarde regarded the Gaullist "antenna" with detached contempt, remarking to Nez-de-Cuir at an early stage that he wanted "to have nothing to do with the Punch-and-Judy coup d'état of M. Chaban-Delmas". His fellow members of "The Group of Seven" went even further in their antipathy to de Gaulle. In this they were representative of the deep-seated Pétainist inclinations of the pieds noirs, inherited from the internal conflicts of French North Africa during the Second World War.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 849