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To: Scripts who wrote (21144)	6/12/2004 3:58:23 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81802

Re: Pieds noir originally meant dusty feet i.e. people who had no shoes--the poor in other words. Who knows where the term can currently be applied but I think the original idea of the downtrodden still is at the bottom of it. Not all Pieds Noirs were downtrodden petits blancs (ie "crackers"), there were also grands colons and bourgeois who thrived in the trade between Algeria and metropolitan France... For that matter, check the link below: memopnha.com As you can see, today's Pieds Noirs indulge in the same boasting as some Jews and insist upon the number of "luminaries", intellectuals, professors, etc, the Pied-Noir community has endowed France with.