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Laurent-Charles Féraud's Annales Tripolitaines remained for a long time in the obscure corners of libraries. This critical reissue intends to give this text all the visibility it deserves. The work of one of the greatest connoisseurs of the Maghreb, they constitute a major source of information not only on France's aims in Tripolitania (present-day Libya), an Ottoman province which long escaped European colonization before falling between the hands of the Italians in 1911, but also on the history of this province. Féraud was the most effective product of the French military administration in the service of its strategic aims: a man in the field coupled with a scholar, a man with great linguistic knowledge coupled with a skillful diplomat. Published posthumously by Augustin Bernard, the Annales Tripolitaines had been largely inaccessible for decades. However, they deserve wide distribution, offering both valuable knowledge of the ancient Maghreb and an implicit chronicle of French colonial expansion. They also complete the panorama of the writings of Laurent-Charles Féraud, in which the Annales are often forgotten in favor of writings on Algeria. The Annals are more than a "monograph" which would simply bring together a multitude of information on the region from the Arab conquest in 642 until the end of the 19th century: they are also a living work, invested with the passion of 'historian. Certainly this passion is at the service of the colonial cause, but we must recognize the company's quality of erudition and its great sensitivity to the Tripolitan soul. Major work of this 19th century scholar, who knew and traveled the Maghreb throughout his life, from the Atlantic to Cyrenaica, and from the Mediterranean to the Sahara, in a crucial period of its history, between the 1840s and the 1880s, the Annals shed valuable and unique light not only on a little-known geographical horizon, but also on the history of the Maghreb in general, between the Ottoman period and the era of colonization.
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