David ben Joseph Coen Bakri
Male, Deceased Person
1770 – 1811
Who was David ben Joseph Coen Bakri?
David ben Joseph Coen Bakri was a financier and chief of the Algerian Jews.
His financial abilities placed him early at the head of the important firm "Bakri Brothers", founded by his father. In 1797 David married Aziza, a niece of the powerful Naphtali Busnash, who at that time became a partner in the firm, which then assumed the name "Bakri Busnash". Supported by the regency, which was but a tool in the hands of Busnash, and skillfully managed by David, the company expanded its business at sea, and many European governments entrusted them with the management of their Algerian money affairs. On several occasions they defied the British government in purchasing from French privateers the vessels that they had captured from the allies. During the dearth of food in France they supplied the latter with a considerable quantity of wheat on credit; and on their advice the Dey authorized a loan to the French Directory of five million francs, the credit for which was eventually transferred to them.
The settlement of this loan brought about thirty years later the definitive rupture between the regency and France, and, finally, the conquest of Algeria by the French.
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