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Slow and unprepossessing as it was, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra Express was a valiant symbol of what Frenchmen like to call "the French presence" in Algeria. Conceived by Napoleon III and completed under the supervision of Marshal Louis Lyautey, greatest of France's North African proconsuls, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra line is the southernmost portion of a railroad that runs all the way from the Mediterranean port of Oran to the rim of the Sahara...
...first governor of its new protectorate, the French sent the revered Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey to Morocco. Lyautey's policy: "Do not offend a single tradition or change a single habit." He ordered French towns built alongside but separate from the Moroccan towns, put all mosques off limits to unbelievers, and met the Moroccans as friendly equals. When he sent the Foreign Legion to subdue rebellious chiefs, he warned his commanders: "Always show your force in order to avoid using it. Never enter a village without thinking that the market must be opened the next...
...from childhood. Shortly after the family had settled in North Africa, her mother died. From that time, Isabelle's life was in the desert. She was accepted by the Arabs as a man, earned a reputation as a war correspondent, and became so knowledgeable that the great Marshal Lyautey (who was reputed to be her lover) said: "No one knows Africa as she does." Another eyewitness says of her: "She was an alcoholic [but] deeply religious . . . She was passionate, sensual, but not in a woman's way. And she was completely flat-chested . . . When...
...omen was favorable. But who could depend on it? Behind locked doors, many Moroccan nationalists celebrated the day in the name of exiled Ben Youssef. A more significant omen for Morocco's future took place in the city of Port Lyautey. There 8.000 to 10.000 resentful Arabs, led by single-minded nationalists, had gone on a rampage in the medina (native quarter) the week before. They killed seven Europeans, including a woman and her daughter, whose stomachs they slit open with knives. The women's bodies were dragged through the streets of the medina. The French last week...
...hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market. Legionnaires drove the Arab men there and herded them under the muzzle of a Patton tank. A dozen policemen formed a gauntlet, six on either side. One by one, the Arabs were thrust forward, each with his hands on his head...