Jacques Chevallier (15 November 1911, in Bordeaux – 13 April 1971) was a liberal pied noir mayor of Algiers[1][2] who governed the city at the head of a coalition of pied noir and Moslem representatives.
He was also the secretary of state for war in the government of Pierre Mendès-France.
His father Etienne Chavellier was an industrialist who also had lands in Algeria; his mother was born Corinne de la Bédoyère Huchet de Kernion.
[4] On 16 May 1955, Chevallier secured the parole of eleven FLN detainees who had been arrested after the November 1954 attacks, including Benyoucef Benkhedda, the future president of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic.
Jacques Chevallier, Nous, Algériens, Calmann-Lévy, 1958 - 187 pages (scanned version)