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The Embassy of Algeria in France (Arabic: سفارة الجزائر في فرنسا) is the diplomatic representation of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria to the French Republic, since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. It is located at 50 Rue de Lisbonne, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the capital of France.
France wanted to preserve its privileged position in the strategically and economically important Algerian nation, and Algeria hoped to receive needed technical and financial assistance. French intervention in the Western Sahara against the Polisario and its lack of Algerian oil purchases, leading to a trade imbalance in the late 1970s strained ...
In 1955, it became the headquarters of France's 10th Parachute Division led by Jacques Massu. Upon Algerian independence in 1962, it was repurposed as the French embassy, and Ambassador Georges Gorse promptly undertook a comprehensive renovation of the building. [1] In 1963, the residence of the ambassador was established in the Villa des ...
Until 1957 Alger was department number "91": after 1957 the much diminished département of Alger became department number "9A". (In 1968, under a law enacted in 1964, the number "91" would be reallocated to Essonne , a new département comprising the southern suburbs of Paris.)
Algerians in France are people of Algerian descent or nationality living in France.People of Algerian origin account for a large sector of the total population in France. Some immigrated during colonial rule in Algeria starting in the 1920s, and large numbers chose to emigrate to France from the 1960s onwards due to political turmoil in Alger
The Algiers putsch (Arabic: انقلاب 1961 في الجزائر; French: Putsch d'Alger or Coup d'État d'Alger), also known as the putsch of the generals (Putsch des généraux), was a failed coup d'état intended to force French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon French Algeria, the resident European community and pro-French Algerians. [1]
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The May 1958 crisis (French: Crise de mai 1958), also known as the Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May, was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) which led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic and its replacement by the Fifth Republic led by Charles de Gaulle who returned to power after a twelve-year absence.