At the Evian peace negotiations in 1962, one of the F.L.N. leaders, Ben Tobbal, claimed to Favrod, the Swiss journalist: "Henri Borgeaud deserves the title of national hero. Without him and those like him, there would never have been a united Algeria."

XREF: Plausibly connects to colonial dynamics elsewhere where oppressor resistance paradoxically consolidated nationalist movements.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 168