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Sunday, 4 August 2019

French people collected money for building submarines Français and l’Algérien according to the Dutch newspaper Tilburgsche Courant dated 2 March 1899

An item reported that despite the fact the magazine Matin closed the collection for a second submarine named Français some time ago, were still contributions received mainly from Algeria. Totally 382.735 francs was collected and the intention was now to built a third submarine to be named l’Algérien.