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"Don't be surprised that we've recounted the countless scandals of the Algerian War. The press did everything it could to suppress them. The guilty parties were never denounced, no one was ever condemned. They even awarded the Legion of Honor to the captain who murdered Maurice Audin (1932-1957), a French mathematician at the University of Algiers and an activist for Algerian independence, who was kidnapped, murdered, and whose body was never found. The judge in Caen was rendered powerless by the authorities… Read more
"Don't be surprised that I've recounted the countless scandals of the Algerian War. The press did everything it could to suppress them. The guilty parties were never denounced, no one was ever condemned. They even awarded the Legion of Honour to the captain who murdered Maurice Audin (mathematicianat the University of Algiers and an activist for Algerian independence, who was kidnapped, murdered, and whose body was never found. The judge in Caen was rendered powerless by the military authorities. I spoke at length about the Algerian War and its horrors in *The Force of Circumstance* : read this book if you have the time."
The Force of Circumstance was published in 1963 by Gallimard. It is the third part of her autobiographical narrative, after Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter and The Prime of Life.
