French East India Company (redirect from La Compagnie française des Indes orientales or Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales)
The French East India Company (French: Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September...
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Mississippi Company (redirect from Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes)
of France. The company absorbed the Compagnie des Indes Orientales ("Company of the East Indies"), the Compagnie de Chine ("Company of China"), and other...
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French West India Company (redirect from Compagnie des Indes Occidentales)
The French West India Company (French: Compagnie française des Indes occidentales) was a French trading company founded on 28 May 1664, some three months...
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Company of the American Islands (redirect from Compagnie des Iles de l'Amerique)
Knights sold the islands they had acquired to the newly formed (1664) Compagnie des Indes occidentales. European chartered companies founded around the 17th...
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mirror of their European rivalry, the French East India Company (La Compagnie des Indes Orientales) sent a small contingent to fight against the British...
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colonies named the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales. The Compagnie de la France équinoxiale was merged into the Compagnie des Indes occidentales, and Lefèbvre...
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France. Designed by Jacques Gabriel, it was commissioned by the Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes to build an auction house for its merchandise. The two pavilions...
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l'abbé Morellet sur la Compagnie des Indes, 1769 Éloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1773 Sur la Législation et le commerce des grains, 1775 Mémoire au roi...
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the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales decided to establish a town at Fort Royal, even though the location was a malarial swamp. The Compagnie des Indes Occidentales...
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History of Lorient (section Developments under the Perpetual Company of the East Indies (Compagnie perpétuelle des Indes))
towards the hinterland. The French East India Company (Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was created by Colbert in 1664, to compete...
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the Cent Associés and the Communautés des Habitants, went bankrupt after the Iroquois war. The Compagnie des Indes occidentales, which replaced them, was...
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Naval Group (redirect from Direction des constructions navales)
completed in 1813. In 1778, the Lorient naval dockyards succeeded La Compagnie des Indes du port de L’Orient. The naval dockyards in Rochefort were closed...
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His other important work is a Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'établissement de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies (10 vols...
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Knights sold the islands they had acquired to the newly formed (1664) Compagnie des Indes occidentales. Dominica is a former French and British colony in the...
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du Mississippi) 1635 Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique 1660 Compagnie de Chine 1664 French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes orientales) 1664 French...
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"trooper". Following the formation of the French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes) in 1719, companies of Indian sepoys (cipayes) were raised to augment...
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renamed June 1698; launched October 1698 at Lorient) – given to the Compagnie des Indes 1698, recovered 1703 but transferred again 1705 Adélaïde 44 (launched...
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103, 115, 117, 126. Trudel, Marcel (1997). La seigneurie de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales, 1663-1674. ISBN 9782762118681. Landry 1992, p. 131...
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with Ramezay's descendants selling the manor to the fur-trading Compagnie des Indes. From 1775, it became the Canadian headquarters for the Continental...
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from 1741 to 1746. At the end of 1748, funded by a director of the Compagnie des Indes, he left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal. He remained...
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by his father, and went on to sail for the Compagnie des Indes. Aged 12 he embarked on a Compagnie des Indes ship and fought in several battles. He became...
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Houckgeest, Andreas Everardus. (1797). Voyage de l'ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales hollandaises vers l'empereur de la Chine, dans les années...
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New France (section Coureurs des bois and voyageurs)
been as many as 900 people living in Montreal. The founding of the Compagnie des Indes in 1718, once again highlighted the economic importance of the fur...
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Paris Water Company (redirect from Compagnie des eaux de Paris)
pre-revolutionary period, as were those of the Caisse d'Escompte and the new Compagnie des Indes, refounded in 1785. Its fragility caused a series of offensives against...
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Royale, as well as frigates built for the French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes) unless the latter were subsequently acquired by the French Navy...
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Duc d'Aquitaine was a 64-gun East Indiaman of the Compagnie des Indes, launched in 1754. On 30 May 1757, she was captured by the Royal Navy and commissioned...
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Houckgeest, Andreas Everardus. (1797). Voyage de l'ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales hollandaises vers l'empereur de la Chine, dans les années...
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the Compagnie d'Orient and Compagnie de Madagascar into the Compagnie des Indes Orientales. A second Compagnie de Chine was established...
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Gorée (section Maison des Esclaves)
trade. It was probably in relation to this trade that the so-called Maison des Esclaves was built. After the French invasion in 1677, during the Franco-Dutch...
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18th-century hotel in Puducherry, India. It was founded in 1664 by the Compagnie des Indes Orientales (French East India Company). The mansion which houses...
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