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The Bakri-Busnach affair (French: L'affaire Bakri-Busnach) is the name of a commercial–political conflict between France and Algeria in the early 19th century; it centered on France's obligations to a commercial company owned by the Algerian Jewish families of Bakri and Bujanah. The affair is considered one of the causes of the French invasion of Algeria in 1830.

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  • Bakri-Busnach affair (en)
  • Affaire de Bachri-Busnach (fr)
  • Бакри и Буснаш (ru)
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  • L'affaire de Bachri-Busnach est le nom d'un conflit commercial et politique entre la France et l'Algérie au début du XIXe siècle; il était centré sur les obligations de la France envers une société commerciale détenue par les familles juives algériennes de Bachri et Busnach. L'affaire est considérée comme l'une des causes de l'invasion française de l'Algérie en 1830. (fr)
  • The Bakri-Busnach affair (French: L'affaire Bakri-Busnach) is the name of a commercial–political conflict between France and Algeria in the early 19th century; it centered on France's obligations to a commercial company owned by the Algerian Jewish families of Bakri and Bujanah. The affair is considered one of the causes of the French invasion of Algeria in 1830. (en)
  • «Бакри́ и Бусна́ш» (первоначально — «Бра́тья Бакри́») — крупная еврейская финансово-торговая компания, действовавшая в конце XVIII — начале XIX веков в Алжире, в то время входившем в качестве автономной единицы в состав Османской империи. Была основана в 1782 году четырьмя братьями — Иосифом, Иаковом, Соломоном и Мардохеем Бакри под названием «Братья Бакри», к которым в 1797 году присоединился Нафтали Буснаш, после чего компания сменила имя. К концу XVIII века компания стала настолько могущественной, что получила эксклюзивные права на экспорт алжирской пшеницы и в значительной мере определяла внешнюю политику Алжира. Крупные поставки пшеницы в кредит во Францию в период Французской революции и правления Наполеона привели к образованию многомиллионного долга Франции перед компанией. Долг бы (ru)
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  • The Bakri-Busnach affair (French: L'affaire Bakri-Busnach) is the name of a commercial–political conflict between France and Algeria in the early 19th century; it centered on France's obligations to a commercial company owned by the Algerian Jewish families of Bakri and Bujanah. The affair is considered one of the causes of the French invasion of Algeria in 1830. During the 17th century, Jewish immigrants from Livorno, Italy, arrived in northern Algeria. These immigrants, who were the descendants of deportees from Spain, settled in North Africa as traders, in search of economic opportunities. Soon they became a significant factor in the international trade of Algerian cities. They provided important financial and commercial services to the Dey (the local ruler of the Ottoman Empire), and some of them were appointed over the years to serve as the "early" mediator between the Algerian Jewish community and the government. Two of the senior families from Livorno in Algeria were the Bakri family and the Bujanah family. The two joined forces in the late 18th century and established an economic company that was dominant in the export of goods from Algeria to Europe, and in particular in the export of food (mainly wheat) from Algeria to France, among other things to meet the needs of Napoleon's army. During the 1780s and 90s, due to the growing needs of Napoleon's army during its conquests, France accumulated huge debts of millions of francs to the Bachri-Boujana company. The company financed its operations by borrowing from Algeria's Dey, so that France's debts to the Bakri-Boujnaj household were in fact debts to the Algerian ruler, and the affair became an ongoing economic conflict between the two countries, unfolding throughout the first three decades of the 19th century. France and Algeria sometimes reached debt arrangements between them, but France often violated them. In 1800, agents of the Bakri-Bujanah company, Jacob Cohen Bakri and Shimon Aboucaya, were arrested in Paris, after urging France to pay its debts. After political contacts, the French government released them that year and agreed to pay 3.7 million francs out of the eight million it owed. In the peace treaty between France and Algeria in 1801, France recognized the existence of the balance of its debts to the Bakri-Busnach company, but even after that, it did not transfer the funds. One of the arguments made by the French government in an attempt to evade payment was that the Bakri-Busnach company also trades with Britain, France's sworn enemy, and therefore France is not interested in paying its debt. The question of France's debts to the Bakri-Busnach company remained unresolved during the years 1800–1826, despite Algeria's attempts to obtain the funds at the time of Louis XVI. In 1826 the Algerian ruler Hussein Dey sent a letter to the French foreign minister, and it was decided to set up a committee to determine the debt settlement. By that year the debt had swelled to fourteen million French francs, including an interest rate of four million francs, but the new debt arrangement stipulated that the French government would pay only seven million francs. The Bakri-Busnach trading house accepted the agreement and so did Hussein Dey, who hoped to get his share of the funds. However, France did not fulfill this debt arrangement either. (en)
  • L'affaire de Bachri-Busnach est le nom d'un conflit commercial et politique entre la France et l'Algérie au début du XIXe siècle; il était centré sur les obligations de la France envers une société commerciale détenue par les familles juives algériennes de Bachri et Busnach. L'affaire est considérée comme l'une des causes de l'invasion française de l'Algérie en 1830. (fr)
  • «Бакри́ и Бусна́ш» (первоначально — «Бра́тья Бакри́») — крупная еврейская финансово-торговая компания, действовавшая в конце XVIII — начале XIX веков в Алжире, в то время входившем в качестве автономной единицы в состав Османской империи. Была основана в 1782 году четырьмя братьями — Иосифом, Иаковом, Соломоном и Мардохеем Бакри под названием «Братья Бакри», к которым в 1797 году присоединился Нафтали Буснаш, после чего компания сменила имя. К концу XVIII века компания стала настолько могущественной, что получила эксклюзивные права на экспорт алжирской пшеницы и в значительной мере определяла внешнюю политику Алжира. Крупные поставки пшеницы в кредит во Францию в период Французской революции и правления Наполеона привели к образованию многомиллионного долга Франции перед компанией. Долг был уступлен правительству Алжира, но по версии алжирских властей, так и не был погашен, что привело к заметным трениям между властями Алжира и Франции и, в конечном итоге, к захвату Алжира французскими войсками и присоединению к Французской колониальной империи. Вскоре после этого компания была ликвидирована. (ru)
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