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Algeria as a French protectorate

Doesn't fit the timeline at all. France started using protectorates in the Maghreb, some Subsaharan states and Indochina mostly from the 1880s.

Anyway, the point was that after a spectacularly brutal conquest, the French state wanted to put in settlers on land they would expropriate from the Algerians. Direct military then civilian rule was more likely to achieve that goal than protectorate status.

But if it's a protectorate and there are still settlers in numbers akin to OTL, of course the fight for independence is going to be violent and of course relations are going to be terrible. Do you think one million people will readily agree to leave the land just because it's been called a protectorate and not départements?

How much did France actually care about the Pied Noirs? @LSCatilina, who is of Pied Noirs descent, himself, has said at the other place that they weren't really well seen in metropolitan France.
 
What if France ran Algeria as a protectorate like they did Tunisia and their portion of Morocco? I think such an Algeria would have gained independence peacefully and have better relations with France, like Tunisia and Morocco.


This is actually an interesting post, I'd suggest you look into what Napoleon III had planned.

Basically, Napoleon III viewed Algeria as an Arab country, a French military camp, and a French colony, and believed it to be a unique 'Arab Kingdom'. His general opinions in this regard were no doubt orientalist, though his advisor Saint-Simon was an 'Arabophile' and convert to Islam. Napoleon believed that the Arabs were good people, but retained the colonialist belief of wanting to 'civilise' them, while limiting colonisation and granting lands to native chieftains.

Napoleon viewed himself as this Arab kingdom's "king", though the biographer of Algerian religious leader and anti-French revolutionary, Emir Abdelkader, claimed that the Emperor had initially offered the role to Abdelkader, who refused.

Perhaps following Napoleon, it could continue (either in the way Andorra has a French president as its "Prince" or Napoleon actually doing well and not pissing himself)?
 
This is actually an interesting post, I'd suggest you look into what Napoleon III had planned.

Basically, Napoleon III viewed Algeria as an Arab country, a French military camp, and a French colony, and believed it to be a unique 'Arab Kingdom'. His general opinions in this regard were no doubt orientalist, though his advisor Saint-Simon was an 'Arabophile' and convert to Islam. Napoleon believed that the Arabs were good people, but retained the colonialist belief of wanting to 'civilise' them, while limiting colonisation and granting lands to native chieftains.

Napoleon viewed himself as this Arab kingdom's "king", though the biographer of Algerian religious leader and anti-French revolutionary, Emir Abdelkader, claimed that the Emperor had initially offered the role to Abdelkader, who refused.

Perhaps following Napoleon, it could continue (either in the way Andorra has a French president as its "Prince" or Napoleon actually doing well and not pissing himself)?

No offense, but that proposal was already discussed here.
 
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