[3] This scandal rousing antisemitic passions in metropolitan France and among the Pied-Noir French colonists in Algeria.

[1] At the age of 10 he went to study at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, then returned to the High School of Algiers, and finally passed his baccalaureate in Montpellier.

[5] He spent a year studying at the Law Faculty of Algiers, then became chief editor of his home town newspaper Le Progrès de Sétif.

[5] At the age of 21 Max Régis fought a duel with an officer named Perroux, and relocated to Tunis for two months to avoid arrest.

[6] At the start of 1897 Max Régis and his brother Louis organized student protests against the appointment of a Jewish professor of Law named Lévy.

Soon after he was named president of the Ligue Antijuive (Anti-Jewish League), and on 14 July 1897 initiated the antisemitic newspaper L'Antijuif d'Alger.

The prefect of Algiers made mass arrests at the event, a mistake that Regis exploited to increase emotions.

[8] Regis had his devotees rampage in nine towns in which two Jews and one other were killed, 158 shops were burned and several synagogues were desecrated.

[10] On 20 February 1898 at an antisemitic meeting in the Salle Chaynes in Paris Régis said, "We will water the tree of liberty with the blood of Jews.

[12] At the start of March 1898 Max Regis was among the speakers criticizing Jews and their "Dreyfusard servants" at a meeting of 800 people in the Salle Wagram in Paris.

[14] On 17 March 1898 the Court of Appeal in Algiers confirmed a judgement that sentenced Régis to four months in prison.

"[2] As mayor of Algiers, the first measures of Régis were:[citation needed] Looting of Jewish shops became frequent.

On 9 January 1899 Max Régis was removed from office as mayor of Algiers after making insults against the authorities.

[11] The French government began to suppress antisemitic activities while accepting some of the demands of the more moderate autonomist settlers.

[1] Anti-Semitic politics in France began to dissolve into minor groups as the 1902 national elections approached.