The French Invasion of Algeria

The French took out grain loans under Napoleon from the Algerian government. This ended in a tiff where the governor of Algeria hit the French ambassador with a fly swatter. The French monarchy at this point is led by his guy named Charles the 10th, who's Mike Duncan calls him what quote one of the great idiots of history. So he's like, Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna invade Algeria to distract everyone from the fact that everyone hates me and they're gonna overthrow me. And this doesn't work. He gets overthrown literally three weeks after this finishes. But the successive French governments keep control of Algeria. They consider Islam like a backwards culture of these, you'd