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. It failed to found a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon and Île-de-Franc...
The French East India Company was founded in 1664. It made rapid progress and it was reorganized in the 1720's and soon began to catch up with the English Company. It was firmly established at Chandernagore near Calcutta and Pondicherry on the East Coast. The French Company had some other...
In1664,theFrenchEastIndiaCompanywasestablishedto competefortradeintheeast. WiththedecayoftheOttomanEmpire,in1830theFrenchseized Algiers,thusbeginningthecolonizationofFrenchNorthAfrica. 第二次世界大统期统,法统西殖民帝逐统分解,中大部都统他所占统国当份国 ...
In1664,theFrenchEastIndiaCompanywasestablishedtocompetefortradeintheeast.WiththedecayoftheOttomanEmpire,in1830theFrenchseizedAlgiers,thusbeginningthecolonizationofFrenchNorthAfrica.第二次世界大战期间，法兰西殖民帝国逐渐分解，当中大部份都为他国所占领（如日本占领印度支那，英国占据了叙利亚、黎巴嫩及马达加斯加，英美...
Also found in: Dictionary, Wikipedia.Related to French Community: Ho Chi Minh, Hutu, Wallonia French Community, established in 1958 by the constitution of the Fifth French Republic to replace the French UnionFrench Union,1946–58, political entity established by the French constitution of 1946. ...
The factory at Vincennes was established at the abandoned castle of Vincennes, outside Paris, and was financed by the former director of the French East India Company, Jean-Henri Orry de Fulvy. The factory at Vincennes was a precursor to the famous Sèvres factory, arguably the best known pr...
Author and doctor Schweitzer established a hospital in Lambarene (now in Gabon) in 1913, what was then French Equatorial Africa. Producer makes mark with upbeat bios HL: My dissertation focused on French post-colonial military policy in former French Equatorial Africa, particularly with regards to...
He said his company was Lrying to reduce the use of plastic bottles.Bruce Karas of Coca - Cola North America agreed. He said, “There’s a mix. There are some things that are not that desirable, but if you have five good things and one that isn’t, we’ll all have to make ...
When was French Indochina established?Sino-French War:During the early 1880s, the French began to encroach on Northern Vietnam, and in order to successfully claim the land, they needed China's assistance. However, negotiations between the French and Chinese broke down in 1883, and tensions ...
Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established. He edited the influential film journal, Cahiers du cinéma, from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues—among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut—were making the transition ...