Henri Fonfrède

Henri Fonfrède (Bordeaux, 1788 – Bordeaux, 1841) was a French orator, publicist and economist. He made his name as a publicist defending liberal ideas in Bordeaux's main newspaper under the Bourbon Restoration. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède.

In the 1830s, he was among the rare French voices to sternly oppose the colonization of Algeria, denouncing it both from an economic and a humanitarian point of view. While still painting the Arabs as "belligerent, fanatics, of a religion that curses ours", Fonfrède recognized that the brutal conquest would only feed and intensify their "righteous resentment".[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Deltombe, Thomas (2023). "Henri Fonfrède, apologiste de la « décolonisation »". In Borrel, Thomas; Boukari-Yabara, Amzat; Collombat, Benoît; Deltombe, Thomas (eds.). Une histoire de la Françafrique: L'empire qui ne veut pas mourir. Seuil. pp. 98–102. ISBN 9782757897751.
  2. ^ Fonfrède, Henri (8 March 2020). "L'Algérie". Institut Coppet. Retrieved 31 January 2025.

 

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