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The France thought fit, then replace Troupel by a physician, Dr. Ormières, which seems to have acquired at the beginning, the confidence of the Sultan and of the population. He advised, to calm the discontent of pro-slaveries notables to publish an abolitionist dahir, which tempered the constraint by the obligation done to the freed to remain ten years to the service of their masters (January 26, 1889). This was very badly received in the slave population.... Shortly after (March 17, 1889, ibid. p. 284, n. 93) Ormières was granted the right to intervene in the internal government of the Sultanate. Masters as slaves felt to tighten the French vice, the popularity of England was only growing, and everywhere the revolt rumbled. It was avoided only by the parking, to Mutsamudu, of French warships succeeding there during several months. Therefore the resistance limited, to the governmental side, to act the most possible as if the agreements did not exist, and to the population side, to hostile actions against the French Residence. In these circumstances, France decided to withdraw temporarily Dr Ormières and close the buildings of the Residence (January 21, 1891).
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