Adam Barbe Holder of diplomas from the École normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay and the École d’économie de Paris (2016). When France Used the Public Debt to Colonise Morocco Adam Barbe · February 2017 It is now widely recognised that the French protectorate over Morocco was acquired thanks to that country’s public debt. Guy de Maupassant in Bel Ami (1885) alludes to this possibility twenty years before the event! Yet still today many historians fantasise about secret financial and diplomatic (…)
