Protégé system

The protégé system (Arabic: نظام المحميين) in Morocco in the 19th century allowed people working for foreign consuls and vice-consuls certain privileges and legal protections not available to the rest of the population.^{[vague][1][2]} At first the status of protégé was available only to Moroccans—Muslims and Jews—but it was extended to Europeans by the 1860s.^[1] The protégé system was a parallel to the capitulatory system in the Ottoman Empire.^[1][3]

The Madrid Conference of 1880 was held at the behest of Sultan Hassan I in response to France and Spain's abuse^{[clarification needed]} of the protégé system.^[3]