Mollet, seldom lacking courage, stoutly refused. Much of the pied noir wrath generated by his visit was directed against the unpopular appointment of General Catroux, whom it was generally assumed Mollet would be bringing with him in his baggage to install as Soustelle's successor. Catroux, at seventy-nine, haggard and weighed down with medals, was of an age hardly likely to recommend him for so arduous an office to the machismo-conscious pieds noirs. Moreover, in their eyes he was also the man who, as wartime high commissioner, had lifted the lid of Pandora's box by his proposed reforms; had then sold out France in Syria and, more recently, in Morocco. He was the quintessence of a bradeur (literally, a "seller-out", or capitulator), and the mere thought of his name was as a red rag to a bull in excitable Algiers.

DEFINE: Explains the term 'bradeur' — a seller-out or capitulator — used as an epithet by pieds noirs against perceived soft-liners.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 459