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French work in Algeria: a nuanced assessment, far from caricatures

2021-01-21T11:44:08.402Z


DECRYPTION - Has France reported or cost Algeria? Were the Muslims of Algeria French? In nine questions, Le Figaro Histoire looks back on 130 years of colonization.


● Was it the French conquest that eliminated Algerian piracy?

In 1516, Barberousse, a Turkish corsair, took control of Algiers and recognized himself as a vassal of the sultan.

The city becomes the capital of a regency whose link of subordination with the Ottoman Empire, however, will remain loose.

But the wealth of this principality will come from the racing war.

For three centuries, the Barbarians of Algiers will be a danger for Europeans.

In 1541, Charles Quint failed to take the city.

François Ier, allied with the Sultan against the House of Austria, obtains on the contrary the concession of trading posts on the coast.

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In the 17th century, the height of the Barbary race, Algiers, where up to 30,000 European captives were held, was at the heart of a traffic in Christian slaves, men, women and children, which religious orders such as the Trinitarians and the Mercedaries vow to redeem.

In 1682, 1683 and 1688, the squadrons of Louis XIV attacked the city but were pushed back.

In 1689, France signed a hundred-year peace with the Regency, a truce that was not

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Source: lefigaro

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