Addition au Memoires to Compagnie des Indes orientales : Paris, Sept. 5, 1740.

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Addition au Memoires to Compagnie des Indes orientales : Paris, Sept. 5, 1740.

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Bouvet was an explorer of the southern oceans, and proposes to Maurepas and other officials that he be permitted to lead an expedition to establish a French commercial base on the island of Terra Australes de Espiritu Santo in the South Pacific.

2 leaves ; 32 cm.

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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. ...

Bouvet, de Lozier.

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Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Comte de, 1701-1781

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Secretary of the Navy in France, 1723-1749; Secretary of the Royal Household, 1715-1749; member of France's Conseil d'en haut, the most important of the royal councils. From the description of Maurepas collection, 1694-1749 (bulk 1740-1749). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936538 French minister of state for the marine and the royal household under Louis XV (1723-1749); chief advisor and minister of state to Louis XVI (1774-1781). Official reports, docume...