Un épisode du partage de l'Afrique : la mission Monteil de 1890-1892
1972; Q24023140; Volume: 59; Issue: 216 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/outre.1972.1610
ISSN2419-4522
Autores Tópico(s)Global Political and Social Dynamics
ResumoAt a time when the French had just reached Segou, on the Niger, Captain Parfait Louis Monteil, originally recommended by Binger to work with Etienne in what was to become the Menard Mission, finally accomplished just after the Franco-British agreements of 5 August 1890, one of the finest explorations of the French Colonial conquest. Carefully organized by an expert in African affairs, the Monteil Mission, comprising a dozen men, having discreetly left Saint-Louis on 9 October 1890, triumphally entered Tripoli on 10 December 1892 after having journeyed across the winding course of the Niger, the Empire of Sokoto and the Sahara desert between Tchad and Tripolitania. While Italy looked upon Monteil as a French emissary with secret to prepare the conquest of Tripolitania, England received with much reservation the treaties arranged by the explorer. Monteil urged the French Government to demand correction of the hypothetical tracing of the Say-Barroua Une of demarcation, while keeping in mind the actual presence of the English (Royal Niger Company). But during the negociations that resulted in the agreement of 14 June 1898, this question was ignored in favor of an access corridor to the lower reaches of the Niger, which however could not be obtained. All of Monteil's efforts to prevent the ratification of that agreement (as well as the one of 21 March 1899 settling the Fachoda Affair) were fruitless despite the support of the Leagues. And yet, after an agreement in principle in 1904, the Convention of 29 May 1906 definitely fixed the Franco-British frontier between Nigeria and Tchad moving it toward the South to take into considération the geographicai layout.
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