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Of Couscous and Control: The Bureau of Muslim Soldier Affairs and the Crisis of French Colonialism

In mid-July 1953, a French Army officer spoke to a group of soldiers assembled for a repatriation party in Saigon. He thanked them for their service and implored them to think of their comrades who continued to fight on the fields of Indochina, expressing the hope that peace and justice would soon be reestablished. But this was no ordinary return to France. Although these soldiers were Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian, the officer was French. They ate lamb and couscous in place of the usual pork and carrots or beans, and they drank mint tea in place of