The Conventions of La Marsa (Arabic: اتفاقية المرسى) supplementing the Treaty of Bardo were signed by the Bey of Tunis Ali III ibn al-Husayn and the French Resident General Paul Cambon in the Dar al-Taj Palace on 8 June 1883. They provided for France to repay Tunisia's international debt so it could abolish the International Debt Commission and thereby remove any obstacles to a French protectorate in Tunisia. It was in the Conventions of La Marsa that the term 'protectorate' was first employed to describe the relationship between France and the Regency of Tunis.[1] As the first protectorate to be established, Tunisia provided a working model for later French interventions in Morocco and Syria.[2]
- ^ Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881–1938 Univ of California Press 2013 p.37
- ^ Maussen, Marcel; Bader, Veit; Moors, Annelies (2011). Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam. Amsterdam University Press. p. 68. doi:10.26530/OAPEN_408876. ISBN 9789089643568. Retrieved April 25, 2017.