IHT Rendezvous: In Close French Election, Anniversaries on Path to Algerian Independence a Minefield

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IHT Rendezvous: In Close French Election, Anniversaries on Path to Algerian Independence a Minefield

In a referendum on April 8, 1962, French voters bowed to the inevitable by approving accords that granted Algeria self-determination. The end of the bloody Algerian war prompted an exodus of about a million French settlers. Their votes and their descendents’ matter.