From the Muslim point of view, whereas in 1947 the loi-cadre might have been acceptable to a majority of moderate nationalists, and possibly even in 1954, by 1957 it was once more the old story of too little, too late, and promptly it received an unyielding “No” from the F.L.N. The pied noir attitude was, as always, that it threatened the integrity of French territory and that in any case there could be no talk of a political solution until the rebellion had been finally stamped out; and, of course, a Muslim-controlled legislature would be intolerable. Lacoste’s popularity, momentarily high after the winning of the Battle of Algiers, slumped to zero.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 751