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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: People from Blida Province, Populated places in Blida Province, Jules Roy, USM Blida, Bougara, Emile Isola, Vincent Isola, Henri Atlan, Ayache Belaoued, Mahfoud Nahnah, Beni Mered, Abdellah Chebira, Meftah, Ouled Yaich District, Mohamed Ousserir, Beni Tamou, Hammam Melouane, Chebli, Ain Romana, Oued El Alleug, Djebabra, Mouzaia, Ouled Selama, Boufarik, Bouarfa, El Affroun, Soumaa, Oued Djer, Larbaa, Larbaa District, Oued El Alleug District, Blida District, Bougara District, Guerrouaou, Mouzaia District, Ben Khellil, Bouinian District, Boufarik District, El Affroun District, Meftah District, Islem Chikhi, Billal Zouani, Chrea National Park, Noureddine Drioueche, Mhamed Yazid, Djamel Amani, Abderaouf Zemmouchi, WA Boufarik, Fares Hamiti, Abdelkrim Mammeri, Ali Bouziane, El Hadi Faycal Ouadah, Souhane, Ali Kerboua, Chiffa. Excerpt: Jules Roy (22 October 1907 - 15 June 2000) was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences as the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War to inspire a number of his words. He began writing in 1946, while still in service, and continued to publish fiction and historical works after his resignation in 1953 in protest of the First Indochina War. He was an outspoken critic of French colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence and later civil war, as well as a strongly religious man. Like his friend Albert Camus, Roy was a white settler in French Algeria. He was born in Rovigo, Algeria, and spent his childhood on the farm of his maternal grand-parents, the Paris, petits colons who lived at the village of Sidi Moussa, about eight kilometres north of the town. Roy was the fruit of an adulterous liaison between Mathilde Roy, the wife of a policeman, and Henri...
