Compagnie des Indes orientales records 1700-1710

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Compagnie des Indes orientales records 1700-1710

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/619

Collection consists of seven volumes relating to the administration of Sieur Jean Baptiste de Villers, governor of the French East India Company, 1701-1709, at the Ile de Bourbon (now Réunion), an island of the Mascarene Group in the Indian Ocean. Volumes include accounts of administrative matters, legal records, personal diary of de Villers, company ordinances and documents, census of island inhabitants, and description of island.

.2 linear foot (1 box)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313982

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Villers, Jean Baptiste de, b. 1671

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Compagnie des Indes orientales

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The Compagnie des Indes Orientales, or the French East India Company, was a member of the consolidated European trade corporation known as the East India Company. The Compagnie des Indes Orientales was organized in 1664 by Jean Baptiste Colbert, the chief advisor to King Louis XIV of France, and was dissolved in 1769 when its possessions were officially annexed to the French crown. From the guide to the Compagnie des Indes orientales records, 1700-1710, (The New York Public Library. ...