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French East India Company

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French East India Company: see East India Company, French East India Company, French, 1664–1769, commercial enterprise planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert and chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Tiny images of people tied together being led toward the ship bolster the idea of conquest, along with a quote by Etienne de Flacourt, French governor of Madagascar (he was installed by the French East India Company in 1648), describing his "objective" impressions.
1664: The French East India Company is established and competes aggressively with the British.
In the the year 1715, Arabica coffee seeds were introduced to the island of Bourbon, a small French possession in the Indian Ocean by Captain Dufourgerat-Grenier, a French officer for the French East India Company.
 
 
 
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