Following the arrest of Lebjaoui, Jeanson had spun together a remarkable network—reminiscent of the French Resistance—of no fewer than forty like-minded French men and women. For three years he operated, without receiving any pay or direct orders from the F.L.N. Jeanson's motives, as he explains them, were the "ignoble behaviour of the forces of order" that he had witnessed in Algeria between 1945 and 1954, and he did not want to be yet another of the French "theoreticians" always giving advice to the Algerians, of which they were tired.

XREF: Connects to histories of the Algerian War of Independence and the French Resistance legacy Jeanson's network evoked.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 746