Algerian national identity in the French colonial policy during the reign of Napoleon III 1852-1870 AD

Abstract

The content of this article revolves around an issue that has long raised controversy, namely
the impact of colonial policy on Algeria and the identity of its people during the reign of Emperor
Napoleon III, Who was keen to destroy all the basic components of the local community, by striking
the Islamic religion, and fighting the Arabic language to enable Christianity and French culture, in
addition to trying to eliminate national unity by dismantling the social structure and spreading ethnic
discrimination between the inhabitants of the various regions, Thus, the article aims to reveal the
attempts of the French colonial authorities to create a generation of Algerians obscured identity
capable of integration in France, through a problem that defines the nature and features of this policy
during the reign of Napoleon III? Attitudes, methods and impacts are discussed, through
extrapolating a variety of local and foreign sources and references, and depending on the historical
method.