Saïd Boualam (2 October 1906 – 8 February 1982) was a French politician and army officer. He was a colonel in the French Army, and the founder of the Front Algérie Française, a political and militant movement in favour of French Algeria.

He was elected a député during the Fifth Republic for Orléansville, for the party Regroupement national pour l'unité de la République (RNUR) in 1958. On 26 September 1959 he survived an attempted murder.

Saïd Boualam

In 1960 he was responsible for the creation of the Front Algérie Française, which was banned by the French government after less than a year. After the group was disbanded he retired to France in 1962. He died on 8 February 1982 at Mas-Thibert, about from Arles.

Saïd Boualam

From 1958 to 1962, Boualam was four times elected vice-president of the National Assembly, becoming a symbol of pro-French Muslims.

Saïd Boualam

Honours

Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur (1978) Commander of the Légion d'honneur Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 Croix de la Valeur militaire Croix du Combattant

Footnotes

Works

Mon pays, la France, éd. France Empire, Paris, 1962

Les Harkis au service de la France, éd. France Empire, Paris, 1963

L'Algérie sans la France, éd. France Empire, Paris, 1964

External links

Fiche sur Saïd Boualam par l'Assemblee nationale

1906 births

1982 deaths

People from Souk Ahras

Algerian politicians

Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic

French Army officers

People of the Algerian War

French people of Algerian descent

French Muslims

Emigrants from French Algeria to France