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But Algeria was, and so was Morocco,
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and Tunisia, were settlement colonies.
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All sorts of people lived there, from France, and they were called
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colons, or settlers, basically,
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and their nicknames were the pieds-noirs, the black feet.
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And there's several interpretations-- maybe Brian can illuminate us--but
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sometimes they were called black feet because of the boots that the
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army soldiers wore, or because it was thought that if
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they walked over the burning sands of the Sahara that their feet would
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be burned and therefore become noir.
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But they were settlers, they were people who had been there,
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in many cases, for generations and generations.