page_title: Max Régis
section_title: Mayor of Algiers
hierarchical_section_title: Max Régis / Life / Mayor of Algiers
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Max Régis.
context_page_description: Max Régis was a French journalist and politician who promoted anti-semitism in French Algeria during the late 1890s. He was elected mayor of Algiers in 1898 but was soon dismissed from office. He campaigned unsuccessfully for election as a national deputy in 1901 as an antisemitic candidate.
  He lived the rest of his life in obscurity.
context_section_description: All 36 municipal councillors elected in Algiers in November 1898 were antisemitic.
  Max Régis, their leader, said of the Jews, "now they will all have to starve."
  On 20 November 1898 the Antijuif said, "The Jews must leave and they must leave voluntarily today, for if they do not they will by forced to leave tomorrow."
  As mayor of Algiers, the first measures of Régis were:
  Cafes that receive Jews cannot have a terrace
  No loitering for hawkers
  Jewish coachmen must park at specified locations
  The Municipal Theater is closed to Jews
  Looting of Jewish shops became frequent. The Algerian antisemitism was so powerful that Regis spoke of autonomy: "If the French refuse to liberate themselves from the Jews, the Algerian people will take its destiny into its own hands!"
  A month later, on 12 December 1898, Max Regis was suspended for three months as mayor of Algiers. 
  M. Lutaud was appointed prefect of the city.
  On 26 December 1898 Régis opposed M. Le Pic in a duel.
  The two men were slightly injured.
  On 9 January 1899 Max Régis was removed from office as mayor of Algiers after making insults against the authorities.
  The Governor General Édouard Laferrière arranged for his removal.
caption: Max Régis in 1898
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