Fiction · HISTORICAL PROFILE
Outside the Law
Hors-la-loi
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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1945 → 1962
Primary placement confidence: high. Importance on the World History timeline: 3/5.
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