Corinne Chevallier is an Algerian historian and novelist of pied noir descent. Her father, Jacques Chevallier

Jacques Chevallier

Jacques Chevallier was a liberal pied noir mayor of Algiers who governed the city at the head of a coalition of pied noir and Moslem representatives....

, was mayor of Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

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She was born in Algiers in 1935, where she has lived ever since.

She is one of the few pieds noirs who took Algerian citizenship and remained in the new state.

Her works include the novels
La Petite Fille du Tassili (Algiers: Éditions Casbah, 2001) and La Nuit du corsaire (Algiers: Éditions Casbah, 2005)