To the author Christian Fouchet, de Gaulle's last High Commissioner, admitted that even at the time of Evian he never foresaw that the pieds noirs would all be able to stay forever: "It would certainly have been impossible for them to have continued to hold land — there would, at best, have been a transitional period of, say, fifteen years — then they would have had to give up."

XREF: Connects to decolonization history and the pied-noir exodus from Algeria post-1962.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1702