Defined period of slower expansion of the French during the mid-eighties, making historians divide the periods of French colonial imperialist expansion into two periods:
First: from 1880 - 1885 and the second from 1890 - 1914
The first period began after the arrival of the so-called Republican opportunists to power in 1879 and which led to the pursuit of two goals:
- To respond to the economic imperatives, and it came with emotion of the money men.
- Confirm the French force without provoking any conflict in Europe with Germany, and in that lies the story of the conflict between imperialism and imperialist interests banner or between Jules Ferry and author Paul Leroy-Beaulieu P. Leroy-Beaulieu
It was two campaigns are more than sufficient to impose on France to protect Tunisia:
1 - forcing Albay in the signing of the Treaty on 24.04.1851 whereby accept Bmqam in French in Tunisia, without the slightest reference to protection;
2 - the suppression of the revolution and the signing of the Treaty of the south marina in 06/08/1883, which officially makes Tunisia a French protectorate.
Has confirmed the importance of economic interests through a gallimaufry of this protection, which was founded several companies, such as: Company Pune - Guelma, the loan company Almarcelih Industrial and Commercial Bank, the French Egyptian, ... etc..
He also slept in the French war and the occupation of Tonkin and the Congo, Sudan and Madagascar, which put them in a resident. However, the currents of several internal and stood against France's expansionist policy, including:
- Catholics: who rebelled against the policy of Jules Ferry education;
- Radicals: and represented Clemenceau (Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841 -1929: Jules Ferry, who was accused of converting from the eyes of the French Alsace-Lorraine and the hope of revenge for the defeat in 1871;
Nationalists and socialists: They are represented by John Juras Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), and they believe that the care and management of the colonies is very expensive, as well as the necessity of the fight against colonialism as the policy of capitalism. As a result of the severity of this opposition, the French and slowed expansion by raising Clemenceau able to talk about the defeat of the French army at the battle of Lang - maintenance, in Tonkin, in Parliament to the resignation of Jules Ferry.
Second Period: Despite the severity of internal opposition, continued expansion of the French in Asia and Africa, where it was the occupation of the desert of Algeria (gutter and yellow eye, in 1882, the territory of the Tuat 1901 then Hoggar thereafter) and Morocco (1912), Timbuktu (1893), the elimination of the Kingdom Samori Samory Touré in Aldahoume (1892), Chad (1900), Djibouti (1892), annexation of Madagascar (1896) ... and so on.
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Colonies