Conventions of La Marsa
1883 treaty between France and Tunisia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]