Joseph François Dupleix
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Joseph Marquis Dupleix was Governor-General of French India and rival of Robert Clive.
Dupleix meeting the Subadar of the Deccan, Muzaffar Jung
Dupleix on Banque de l'Indochine banknote
Monument to Dupleix in Puducherry
French East India Company
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The French East India Company was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September 1664 to compete with the English and Dutch trading companies in the East Indies. 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, and Marcara Avanchintz, an Armenian trader from Isfahan, Persia.
Coat of arms Motto: Florebo quocumque ferar Latin for "I will flourish wherever I will be brought"
French East India Company cannon ("Canon de 4"). Bronze, 1755, Douai.
Carte de L'Indoustan. Bellin, 1770.
French-issued copper coin, minted in Pondichéry, used for internal Indian trade.