capable of freeing itself from racial prejudices and guarding against all religious intransigence.")After the consequences of the 1912 Tunis Tram Boycott, the party lost its founders and some of its leaders who had been exiled or imprisoned. A few years later they had been pardoned but with the First World War going on they decided to wait before starting to demand reforms and change in the Tunisian society. After the end of the war, the Young Tunisian start to meet again with new members and decide that they want to push their demands again. Abdelaziz Thâalbi wrote with the help of several intellectuals from the Young Tunisians La Tunisie Martyre, a book that fulfills this wish. The book was distributed to the French political world and had a considerable effect on the left wing of the French political landscape. Important figures of the Young Tunisians such as Thâalbi and Zmerli were among the founders of the Destour, the Constitutional Liberal Party, a nationalist party that wanted to free Tunisia from the French Protectorate in 1920. This was the party of Habib Bourguiba before the scission in 1934 and the creation of the Neo-Destour. Prominent figures Ali Bach Hamba (1878-1918), co-founder of the Young Tunisians; founder of the newspaper Le Tunisien (1907). Mohamed Bach Hamba (1881-1920) co-founder of the Young Tunisians and editor of the "Revue du Maghreb" Bechir Sfar (1856-1917), co-founder of the Young Tunisians, independency activist. Hasan Qallati (1880-1966), lawyer at the Tunis bar, redactor of Le Tunisien Abdelaziz Thâalbi (1876-1944), militant inside the Young Tunisian; founder and editor of the Arabic version of Le Tunisien (1909), author of La Tunisie martyre (The martyred Tunisia) (1920); co-founder of the Constitutional Liberal Party a.k.a. the Destour in 1920. Sadok Zmerli (1893-1983), journalist for Le Tunisien (French and Arabic versions), co-founder of the Constitutional Liberal Party a.k.a. the Destour in 1920. References 1907 establishments in Tunisia Defunct political parties in Tunisia Political parties established in 1907 Tunisian nationalism