One day in the 1950s, Jacques Soustelle, governor-general of Algeria between 1955 and 1956, returned from Algiers, where he had taken an informal poll.
He told the president that all of his friends were bitterly opposed to de Gaulle's Algerian policies. De Gaulle's reply? "Changes vos amis" (Change your friends).
[On February 18, 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert. A half-hour storm stopped traffic in southern Algeria. Within hours the snow had melted.]
Sources
Arianna Huffington, How to Overthrow the Government; Isaac Asimov`s Book of Facts
