 An advertisement for the Compagnie Marocaine in La Terre Marocaine dated December 1, 1928 | |
| Type | holding company |
|---|---|
| Industry | international trade  |
| Headquarters | France |
La Compagnie Marocaine (the Moroccan Company) was a French colonial holding company founded in 1902 for the purpose of exploiting Morocco. [1]
In 1902, a group of industrialists led by Eugène Schneider II founded the company with the purpose of organizing commercial, industrial, and agricultural activities in Morocco.
Eugène Schneider II was its first president.
The Treaty of Algeciras of 1906, which formalized French preeminence in Morocco and precipitated the establishment of a French protectorate in Morocco, accorded a contract to construct modern ports in Casablanca and Asfi to Compagnie Marocaine. In fact, it was an attack on the company's Decauville train that incited the Bombardment of Casablanca in August 1907, marking the beginning of the French conquest of Morocco. [2]
Starting in 1911, in order to secure an increase in capital, the presidency went to a representative of the Banque de l'Union Parisienne .
It participated in the creation of the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Maroc (Railroad Company of Morocco) and become a main shareholder.
La Compagnie Marocaine was listed in the Paris Bourse in 1920.
Casablanca is the largest city of Morocco. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, it is the second largest city in the Maghreb region and the eighth-largest in the Arab world. Casablanca is Morocco's chief port and one of the largest financial centers in Africa. According to the 2019 population estimate, the city has a population of about 3.71 million in the urban area and over 4.27 million in the Greater Casablanca. Casablanca is considered the economic and business center of Morocco, although the national political capital is Rabat.
The French protectorate of Morocco, also known as French Morocco, was the French military occupation of a large part of Morocco established in the form of a colonial regime imposed by France while preserving the Moroccan royal regime known as the Sherifian Empire under French rule. The protectorate was officially established 30 March 1912, when Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes, though the French military occupation of Morocco had begun with the invasion of Oujda and the bombardment of Casablanca in 1907.
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Maurice Le Glay was a French Army officer and author of works on Morocco. He served as an artillery and political officer in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco before retiring to a civil post in 1918 so that he could begin a literary career. He wrote numerous journal articles and several books including a description of the French defeat at the Battle of El Herri. He was a strong admirer of the Berber people, though he was criticised for inspiring the political division of the Berber and Arab peoples in Morocco. He retired to Casablanca, where he died and was honoured with a street named in his memory.
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The Bombardment of Casablanca was a French naval attack taking place from August 5–7 in 1907 that destroyed the Moroccan city of Casablanca. France used mainly artillery fire from battleships to bomb the city and targets in the surrounding area, causing an estimated 1,500 to 7,000 Moroccan deaths. The bombardment of Casablanca opened a western front to the French conquest of Morocco, following Hubert Lyautey's occupation of Oujda in the east earlier that year.
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The architecture of Casablanca is diverse and historically significant. Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital, has a rich urban history and is home to many notable buildings in a variety of styles. Throughout the 20th century, architecture and urban development in Casablanca evolved in a way that was simultaneously specific to the city's contexts, and consonant with international ideas.
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André Clément Henri Adam was a French colonial researcher and professor specialized in the social sciences, letters, Arabic, and North Africa. He wrote extensively on Casablanca, Morocco, publishing a two volume study of the city's transformation with contact with the west entitled Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident, and a general history of the city up to 1914 entitled Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914.
The Empain group was a loose grouping of companies founded by Édouard Empain (1852–1929) of Belgium and controlled by the Empain family. From 1881 until merging with the Schneider group in 1967, the companies engaged in a broad range of activities including tramways, railways, electricity generation, construction and mining. The main areas of activity were Belgium and France, but the group also pursued opportunities in Russia, Egypt, China and elsewhere, and played a large role in the development of the eastern Belgian Congo.
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