Guillaume de Bellecombe
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Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe was Governor General of Réunion, Saint-Domingue and Pondichéry, and a Republican revolutionary. According to most accounts he was born in 1728 in France.
Perspective view of the French attack on Newfoundland near St. John's.
French India
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French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde, was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of th
A portrait of Ananda Ranga Pillai
View of Pondicherry in the late 18th century
French factory (trading post) at Patna on the Ganges
Governor's Garden at Pondicherry, 18th century