From January 1955 onwards François Mauriac, in the “Bloc-Notes” which he contributed for Servan-Schreiber’s L’Express, had been hammering away at army excesses in Algeria, and had acquired a widening measure of support. In February 1957 Témoignage Chrétien published the “Muller Dossier”, compiled by a rappelé killed in Algeria in which he and fourteen of his comrades denounced “degrading practices” they had witnessed. Another organ of Catholic protest against torture was the Comité de Résistance Spirituelle, founded among others by the popular Abbé Pierre.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 729