The Margueritte defendants’ trial opens in Montpellier

The transport ship La Loire left Brest carrying Algerian political deportees detained after the Mokrani uprising. Deportation removed people from their families and homeland and extended colonial...

The law of 28 June 1881 formalised a special administrative and penal regime for Algerians classified as “indigènes.” It enabled punishment through administrative authority and offences that did not...

A law of 28 April 1887 adjusted land administration and made it easier for colonial authorities to delimit and redistribute collective lands. The process could convert communal tenure into parcels...

The law of 27 June 1888 extended for two years the exceptional regime established in 1881. Repeated renewal shows that legal inequality was maintained through ordinary legislative procedures, rather...

Residents of the Righa community rose at Margueritte amid land loss, settler expansion, and colonial administrative pressure. French authorities framed the revolt as a threat to order and responded...

A decree introduced a system of military recruitment for Algerian Muslims, with annual selection and partial conscription. It responded to French military manpower needs while extending obligations to...

A decree provided that some Algerian men who completed military service with good conduct would no longer be subject to the indigénat’s special jurisdiction. The measure linked relief from...

The Jonnart Law expanded access to French citizenship and electoral participation for selected Algerian Muslims, but imposed restrictive eligibility conditions and did not establish equality for the...

An official petition dated 18 July 1920 demanded political rights for Algerians. Its emergence followed wartime service and the restrictive Jonnart reforms, and expressed a political claim within...

A law of 4 August 1920 modified provisions of the 1919 legislation concerning political rights for Algerian “indigènes.” The change belongs to a sequence of tightly limited reforms that managed...