page_title: Muhammad V Square
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Muhammad V Square / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Statue équestre du Marechal Lyautey, Le Palais de Justice, Casablanca, Maroc. English: Equestrian statue of Hubert Lyautey, colonial period after 1938, Administrative Square (now Muhammad V Square), Casablanca Morocco
context_page_description: Muhammad V Square, is a public square of historical and symbolic significance located in central Casablanca, Morocco. It was established in 1916 at the beginning of the period of French colonialism—under Resident General Hubert Lyautey—according to the design of the French architects Henri Prost and Joseph Marrast.
context_section_description: The area south of the medina that is now Muhammad V Square had been occupied by barracks of the French colonial troops before the plan of Henri Prost and Joseph Marrast to establish a large square there was implemented in 1916. It became the heart of the expanding ville européenne, or European city. At the time, it was named Place Lyautey, Lyautey Square, in honor of the France's first résident général in Morocco.
  On August 8, 1943, Charles de Gaulle—accompanied by General Georges Catroux, commissary of the Coordination of Muslim Affairs and governor general of Algeria, and Gabriel Puaux, resident general of France in Morocco—appeared at Place Lyautey, where he delivered a speech broadcast by radio.
caption: The equestrian statue of Hubert Lyautey, by Antoine Marchisio and François Cogné, was placed in the square in 1938.[4] It still exists, though it was moved within the walls of the French consulate upon Morocco's independence.[4]
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