Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yankin da ke wajen ganuwar tsohuwar medina wanda yanzu shine Filin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, ya kasance wurin "Souq Kbir" (), wanda ake kira, kafin mulkin mallaka na Faransa. A shekara ta 1908, bayan harin da Faransawa suka kai da kuma mamayar
Daga Casablanca, kwamandan Faransa Charles Martial Joseph Dessigny ya ba da umarnin gina hasumiyar agogo a yankin, wanda daga baya ya sami sunan, "Place de l'Horloge", "Fagen agogo". Daga nan aka sanya wa filin suna "Place de France", "Square of France", kuma ƙungiyar gine-ginen Faransa da masu tsara birane da aka zaɓa ta Faransa "Résident général" Hubert Lyautey da Henri Prost suka jagoranta.