It was won, though the barricades dragged on through another forty-eight hours. Morale slumped as the rain continued to lash down. Men of the 25th Para division, in from the bled and less sympathetic towards the “ultras”, began to replace Dufour’s and Broizat’s regiments of the 10th. The fraternisation ended, contacts were slowly cut between the insurgents and their food-bearing kindred as the new troops placed their own tight cordon round them.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1121