Toussaint Rouge

Red All-Saints' Day
Toussaint Rouge
LocationFrench Algeria
Date1 November 1954
00:00 – 02:00[1]
Attack type
bomb attacks & sabotages
Deaths10
PerpetratorsFLN

Toussaint Rouge (French: [tusɛ̃ ʁuʒ], "Red All Saints' Day"), also known as Toussaint Sanglante ("Bloody All-Saints' Day") is a series of 70 attacks[2] committed by militant members of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) that took place on 1 November 1954—the Catholic festival of All Saints' Day—in French Algeria. It is usually taken as the starting date for the Algerian War which lasted until 1962 and led to Algerian independence from France.

  1. ^ "The Algerian Civil War, 1954–1962: Why Such a Bitter Conflict?". University of San Francisco. Archived from the original on 23 April 2006.
  2. ^ "La Toussaint rouge. 1 November 1954" (PDF). jeanyvesthorrignac.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 February 2023.