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According to “the legend of the fly-whisk”, the last Ottoman ruler of Algiers, Dey Hussein Khodja, struck the French consul Pierre Deval in the face with a fly-whisk on April 29, 1827, during a dispute over unpaid French debts in purchasing wheat from Algeria. At that moment the country’s fate for the next 132 years was sealed. This incident of insult became a pretext for the French invasion of Algeria in June 1830.
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Laaredj-Campbell, A. (2016). Historical Retrospective of Women’s Education in Algeria. In: Changing Female Literacy Practices in Algeria. Edition Centaurus - Sozioökonomische Prozesse in Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11633-0_4
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