Furthermore, with its traditional emphasis on the grandiose liberal principles of the "Great French Revolution", French education could hardly help but divert perhaps otherwise passive minds to the nobility of revolt. M'hamed Yazid, one of the more intellectual F.L.N. leaders, notes that school heroes for his generation included Mustafa Kemal, Gandhi and the Irish rebels of the First World War.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 182