Henri Fonfrède (

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, 1788 – Bordeaux, 1841) was a French

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. He made his name as a publicist defending liberal ideas in Bordeaux's main newspaper under the Bourbon Restoration. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède. In the 1830s, he was among the rare French voices to sternly oppose the colonization of Algeria, denouncing it both from an economic and a humanitarian point of view. While still painting the

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as "belligerent, fanatics, of a religion that curses ours", Fonfrède recognized that the brutal conquest would only feed and intensify their "righteous resentment".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fonfrede, Henri 1788 births 1841 deaths Politicians from Bordeaux Orléanists Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy French economists