He was for the independence of Algeria, but wasn't part of the FLN.
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He was a friend to Charles de Gaulle, and acted several times as an intermediate between him and the GPRA.
With Lucie Faure and Jean Amrouche he founded a new literary review, La Nef ("The Steeple"), for which he would continue writing until 1952.
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Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche (c. 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria – July 9, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France) is the mother of writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.