French policy toward Tunisia 1881-1914

Abstract

French ambitions in Tunisia back to distant era, extending the year 1270, when King Louis IX of France led a Faild military campaign to take control of Tunisia, and then managed to France in 1685 to impose a treaty on Tunisia eligibility privilege conferred on the rest of the other countries. After the French occupation of Algeria in 1830, France has shown special  in to Tunisia, which considered an extension of Algeria to the east, and took fabricating justifications for its occupation. In light of this came this research in order to Highlight light on French policy toward Tunisia 1881-1914. has been divided into four main topics dealt with first, including the political situation of Tunisia until 1881, and explin the summary of the nature of international relations, which gave France the arguments in the occupation of Tunisia and forced to sign Bardo Treaty of 1881. while the second axis rurning to the political situation of Tunisia for the period 1881 to 1914, and discussed the nature of the politics of the administrative side and the Immigration and Naturalization policy and their impact on all aspects of Tunisia. While he studied the third axis, economic conditions and the extent of affected policy of colonial France, especially after its dominance of the most important economic sectors (agricultural, commercial and industrial), and the last theme was the extent of the decline of social conditions treated by grabbing endowments, and the deterioration of the education and health system. The conclusion touched on the most important resuts reached by the researcher which revealed the French colonial policy for obsessive nature, and the injustice and oppression, which took place on the Tunisian people during the occupation who Stripping the people of the Islamic Arab identity . Which Took place on the Tunisian people during the Occupation who tried Stripping the people of the Tslamic Arab identity