What role did plans to create supranational states play in both French and Algerian national projects during Algeria’s revolution?  In this period, as the discussions of scholars, anticolonial activists, state planners, and international organizations such as UNESCO reveal, it was presumed that the age of the nation-state had past. What French and Algerian plans emphasize, however, is that many participants in this discussion were also certain that nations would continue to flourish, if they became part of supranational states.