ФРАНЦУСКИ КАПИТАЛ У ТРГОВИНИ И РУДАРСТВУ КНЕЖЕВИНЕ СРБИЈЕ ОД 1858. ДО 1868. ГОДИНЕ
FRENCH INVESTMENTS IN TRADE AND MINING OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF SERBIA FROM 1858 TO 1868

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the activities and investments of French business people in the trade and mining of Serbia during the second reign of Prince Miloš and Prince Mihailo Obrenović. In the summer of 1856, Captain Magnan, a French ship-owner and the representative of the Trade and Steamboat Association Mathis, Magnan, Parot et Cie, was examining conditions for sailing and the possibility of establishing commercial connections between France and northern provinces of the Ottoman Empire. After the Obrenović dynasty restored its rule, in April 1859 he proposed to Prince Mihailo the plan of establishing the sailing route between France and Serbia and the permanent steamboat service using French boats on the Danube, Sava and Morava rivers. The change of the course of the foreign policy of the Principality, as well as its turning to Paris, aroused the interest of business circles in investing in the mining business in Serbia. The general political situation and the failure of the state initiative in the mining business contributed to the investment of French finances in this part of Europe, after signing of the Treaty of Paris (1856). The paper describes in detail the relations, religious and cultural differences between local society and the colony of French citizens in Majdanpek.

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