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The Red All Saints’ Day — The attacks that opened the Algerian War, 1954
In the night of All Saints, the FLN, unknown the day before, struck at many points across Algeria. Mitterrand, Interior Minister, replied: “Algeria is France.” A war long refused its name — “the events” — was beginning. (Editorial synthesis)
The Red All Saints’ Day took place on 1 November 1954. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
The Red All Saints’ Day ended in simultaneous attacks across Algerian territory — a conflict that would last eight years. (source: Larousse)
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