Here again.
First, please be indulgent with my faults. It is not easy to write in so fast English that we think in French...
I would like to give an answer to my friend Jim.
What was the French presence there like c.1800-15?
The french Revolution (1789) were in conflict with Istanboul, so with the Ponant regencies (Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli). It increased with Bonaparte's expédition in Egypt (1798 - 1801) untill the Napoleon's fall (1815).
In 1818, the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, european nations decided to end with regencies. In 1830, France stopped it definitively.
Best for you.
Louis-Pierre
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