December 2009
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Habillées pour l’été 2010
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Algeria: Cry the benighted country
“Despite its unrelentingly vicious history, the French took North Africa to their hearts. Algeria was a colony for more than 130 years. That’s longer than any other country in Africa apart from South Africa and Mozambique. The French didn’t just use Algeria for what they could get out of it; they did something far more damaging, far darker. The French fell in love, like an old man besotted...
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