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, a French Girondist politician.[1]

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".[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Palgrave, R. H. Inglis, ed. (2015), "Dictionary of Political Economy pages 1 to 175", Dictionary of Political Economy, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 95, doi:10.1017/CBO9781316106617.002, ISBN 978-1-108-08038-5
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Fonfrède, Henri (8 March 2020). "L'Algérie". Institut Coppet. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
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