2 résultats pour "pondicherry"
- Pondichéry ou Pondicherry, territoire de l'Union indienne, unité administrative à statut spécial qui groupe quatre des anciens comptoirs français fondés au XVII e siècle et administrés par la Compagnie des Indes orientales.
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East India Company .
French control to southern India, where it remained supreme until 1761, when the British captured Pondicherry. The operations of the company were finally suspendedby royal decree in 1769, and in the following year it turned over its capital of more than 500 million livres to the Crown. In 1785 a new company received commercialprivileges, but this company was abolished in 1794 during the time of the French Revolution. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights res...