Lyes Derriche (, (born 1928 in
Casbah of Algiers
The Casbah ( ar, قصبة, ''qaṣba'', meaning citadel) is the citadel of Algiers in Algeria and the traditional quarter clustered around it. In 1992, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed ' ...
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Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
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Algeria
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; died 2001 in
El Madania
El Madania ( ar, المدنية) is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district. Its municipal code is 1603 and postal code is 16075. It has a population of 51,404 as of the 1998 census, which ...
, Algeria) was an Algerian politician.
Algerian War
Lyès Deriche, the son of Mouhamed Deriche, housed in his villa in the Algerian commune of
Clos-Salembier the meeting of the Group of 22 baptized
Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action (RCUA).
On 25 July 1954, in the modest villa belonging to Lyès Deriche, twenty-two Algerians spoke for the unlimited revolution until total independence. They were all elders of the
Special Organization who were summoned in the second half of June 1954.
Many of them were from families where there were
qaid
Qaid ( ar , قائد ', "commander"; pl. '), also spelled kaid or caïd, is a word meaning "commander" or "leader." It was a title in the Norman kingdom of Sicily, applied to palatine officials and members of the ''curia'', usually to those w ...
s and
bachaghas who had studied in the schools of the
Association Of Algerian Muslim scholars.
Lyès Deriche, a friend of
Zoubir Bouadjadj, was a former militant of the
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties The Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD), name proposed by Maiza, was created October 1946 to replace the outlawed Parti du Peuple Algerien (PPA). Messali Hadj remained as its president.
The MTLD was created on the same platform ...
. He welcomed
Mohamed Boudiaf
Mohamed Boudiaf (23 June 1919 – 29 June 1992, ar, محمد بوضياف; ALA-LC: ''Muḥammad Bū-Ḍiyāf''), also called Si Tayeb el Watani, was an Algerian political leader and one of the founders of the revolutionary National Liberat ...
who was the revolutionary leader of
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
, and had prepared the meal for the participants in the historic meeting.
About noon the owner of the house, Deriche, invited the presents to a
couscous
Couscous ( '; ber, ⵙⴽⵙⵓ, translit=Seksu) – sometimes called kusksi or kseksu – is a Maghrebi dish of small steamed granules of rolled durum wheat semolina that is often served with a stew spooned on top. Pearl millet, sorghum, ...
, and after a short pause they returned to work.
See also
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List of Algerians
Notable Algerians include:
Artists
Writers (including poets)
*Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985), political leader and essayist
*Mohamed Aïchaoui (1921–1959), political leader and journalist
*Abdelkader Alloula (born 1939), playwright
*Al-Akhd ...
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History of Algeria
Much of the history of Algeria has taken place on the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb (or Maghreb). North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the reg ...
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Algerian nationalism
Algerian nationalism is pride in the Algerian identity and culture. It has been historically infuenced by the conflicts between the conflicts between the Deylik of Algiers and European countries, the French conquest of Algeria and the subsequen ...
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Algerian National Movement
The Algerian National Movement (french: Mouvement national algérien, or MNA, Tamazight: ''Amussu Aɣelnaw Adzayri'', ar, الحركة الوطنية الجزائرية) was an organization founded to counteract the efforts of the National Liberat ...
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (french: Troisième République, sometimes written as ) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 ...
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French Fourth Republic
The French Fourth Republic (french: Quatrième république française) was the Republicanism, republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of ...
References
External links
Website "www.thenia.net" about ThéniaFirst Website "http://menerville.free.fr" about "Ménerville and Thénia" before 1962Second Website "http://menerville2.free.fr" about "Ménerville and Thénia" before 1962
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1932 births
People from Souk El-Had
People from Thénia District
People from Boumerdès Province
Kabyle people
1982 deaths
Burials in Algeria
20th-century Algerian politicians
Algerian Berber politicians
Algerian nationalism