peuplement

Updated: May 18, 2025

If only, like the Maltese, they would talk less and do more in certain respects, the "comite du peuplement" might close its doors. But such recklessness would ill comport with the ant-like hiving quality which paid back, within I forget how few years, the German war indemnity.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia

This great predominance of a foreign stock scared some good folks, and a "Comite du peuplement francais" was organized, to study ways and means of populating Tunisia with French citizens. If Sicilians could obtain grants of land under the same conditions as Frenchmen, large tracts, now waste, would be converted into gardens, to the profit of the exchequer. Is it worth while?

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia