Their first concern was that honour should remain intact; that acceptance of a paix des braves should in no way be allowed to look like capitulation. Accordingly, Bernard Tricot worked out a formula whereby the maquisards would “deposit for safe-keeping” their weapons in local gendarmeries (specifically not turning them over into army hands); they would then file away to their villages; only those guilty of “murder” would be placed under surveillance until the definitive end of hostilities; on reaching this point, France was to be trusted to institute a massive amnesty.

DEFINE: Clarifies the meaning of 'paix des braves' — a peace between brave men that avoids capitulation's shame through ritualized, symbolic concessions rather than outright surrender.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1184