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French East India Company
Company flag
Coat of arms
Motto: Florebo quocumque ferar Latin for "I will flourish wherever I will be brought"
Native name
Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales
Company type
Public State-owned enterprise
Industry
Trade
Founded
1 September 1664
Founder
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Defunct
1794
Fate
Dissolved and activities absorbed by the French Crown in 1769; reconstituted 1785, bankrupt 1794
Headquarters
Lorient
Colonial India
Imperial entities of India
Austrian India
1778–1785
Swedish India
1731–1813
Dutch India
1605–1825
Danish India
1620–1869
French India
1668–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia
1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company
1628–1633
British India (1600–1947)
EIC in India
1600–1757
Company rule in India
1757–1858
British rule in Portuguese India
1797–1813
British Raj
1858–1947
British rule in Burma
1824–1948
Princely states
1721–1949
Partition of India
1947
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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 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch trading companies in the East Indies.[1] Planned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. It resulted from the fusion of three earlier companies, the 1660 Compagnie de Chine, the Compagnie d'Orient and Compagnie de Madagascar. The first Director General for the Company was François de la Faye, who was adjoined by two Directors belonging to the two most successful trading organizations at that time: François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including more than 20 years in Japan,[2] and Marcara Avanchintz, an Armenian trader from Isfahan, Persia.[3]
^Mole 2016, p. 24.
^Rogala 2001, p. 31. Caron lived in Japan from 1619 to 1641.
^McCabe 2008, p. 104.
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