Julien Schmaltz
The colonel Julien Schmaltz (1771 - 1826) is a French colonial administrator. Appointed governor of the Senegal, it joined its station in 1816 and appears among the survivors of the shipwreck of the Jellyfish .
Biography
Julien Désiré Schmaltz was born on February 5th, 1771 with Lorient.…
May 8th, 1819 colonel Schmaltz signs the Treaty of Ndiaw with the Brak (king) of the Waalo which leads to the creation of a series of commercial stations along the river Senegal (Bakel, 1820; Dagana, 1821; Merinaghen, 1822; Lampsar, 1843; Sénoudébou, 1845), not without confrontations with the local chefferies and States.
It sets up an agricultural vast project of colonization, in the area of Waalo (Coton, Indigo…). It will be abandoned after its failure in 1831 (lack of colonists and labor, insecurity in the area).
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