Together with Susini they shared to the full one of the commoner and less attractive characteristics of the pied noir, that capacity for reflex violence and brutal action so penetratingly exemplified by Camus' "Outsider".

XREF: Connects to Camus' The Outsider, whose protagonist Meursault exemplifies this pied noir disposition — Camus was himself a pied noir.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1069