Ten years after the liquidation of the Algerian war, the face that France showed to the world was, once again, that of a truly great power, more self-confident than she had been at any time since before 1914, and certainly more prosperous in material terms. The economic revival of France under the stewardship of de Gaulle has been one of the miracles of the Western world, second only to Federal Germany's recovery after 1945. No more remarkable yard-stick of it exists than the way in which France assimilated the over one million pieds noirs who flooded to her shores.

XREF: French economic miracle (Trente Glorieuses) connects to broader post-war Western European recovery literature.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1661