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During the Algerian War, certain situations forced men of honor to take decisions or to make choices that led them to follow their convictions and their loyalties through to very end, even if that meant disobeying or rebelling along the way. Paul Delouvrier, delegate-general of the government from 1958 to 1960, whose humanism prevented bloodshed in Algiers during the week of the barricades in 1960, and Commandant Georges Robin who took part in the Generals’ putsch in April 1961 were two such men. The former was disavowed by Paris before being insulted by the residents of Algiers. The latter, like his peers, was condemned and reproved. But in both cases, the meaning of their action was not known or was misunderstood. This article attempts to reconstruct the situations and the political and moral motives that led these two figures to choose honor over the honors that they might have been destined to receive.