For generations, the Kabyles have shaped France whether in politics, sport or music.

The best-known Z is Zinedine Zidane, the former French footballer and former Real Madrid coach. Now France has another big Z Eric Zemmour whose parents moved to France during the Algerian War. His father Roger always taught him to be a man and it was he who inspired the one who would become the spokesperson and maybe the next French president. He truly embodied this French bourgeoisie who believed in his chances of social advancement through work and of course his mother was the pillar on which all the men of the house rested, as is in the Kabylia tradition, she transmitted to her son a disproportionate attitude love for French and berber culture and this love continues to make him vibrate in France and Algeria.

He is invincible on the TV sets, intractable with the enemies of France, he is a prophet of post-modern times.

Once in a radio debate, an Algerian called him and said aren’t you ashamed to be Algerian? Eric Zemmour: But I’m not Algerian. Algeria does not exist anyway. Algeria is an invention of France. Algeria did not exist before France! He inherits, through the early francization of his Berber family on the paternal side, a radiant Francophilia.

And at a time when part of France is collapsing, his voice seems to find an echo in public opinion. He thus wants to pay homage to his civilisation heritage.

And like him, other personalities, from the Berber world, have perfectly succeeded in their integration. From the singer Edith Piaf (nicknamed the little sparrow), whose grandmother Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed was a Kabyle, to the actor Dany Boon who publicly claims his Kabylia and many others, all have met success and happiness in France which has welcomed them.

Peter Tan