French East India Company

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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
Map of colonial India, distributed by the British Information Services (1942)
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 in India 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 engage in trade in India and other Asian lands. As such, it competed 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]