الحماية الفرنسية في تونس
In addition to the presence of a gallery in the palace belonging to the beys of the Husainid dynasty who ruled Tunisia from 1705 to 1957, the palace also contains several gifts gifted by foreign leaders and valuable items such as the table upon which the Treaty of Bardo was signed on 12 May 1881, which established the French protectorate of Tunisia. President Bourguiba was keen to bring this table to the presidential palace to proceed there and on the same day, on 12 May 1964, the law on agricultural evacuation, which means transferring the ownership of agricultural lands that the French had owned to the Tunisian government.