French colonial holding company
La Compagnie Marocaine holding company founded in 1902 for the purpose of exploiting Morocco .[ 1]
History
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.
A man inspects the derailed Decauville locomotive belonging to La Compagnie Marocaine in 1907. 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
La Compagnie Marocaine was listed in the Paris Bourse in 1920.
Administration
List of presidents
1903-1911: Eugène Schneider II
1911-1914: Jules-Frédéric Lambert, marquis de Frondeville
1914?-1922: Max Boucard
1922-1923: Cornelis de Witt
1923-1958: Jacques Feray
See also
References
^ "الشركة المغربية: أول الغزاة" . زمان (in Arabic). 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2019-04-28 .^ Adam, André (1968). Histoire de Casablanca, des origines à 1914 . Éditions Ophrys. p. 107.
Bibliography
Pierre Guillen, L'implatation de Schneider au Maroc, les débuts de la Compagnie marocaine (1902-1906) , 1965
André Adam, Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914 , 1968
Mohamed Bouzidi, Histoire économique, le Maroc précolonial , 1981 
