French East India Company

See: Persia, Public Company, State-Owned Enterprise, Trade, Florebo Quocumque Ferar, Latin, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Lorient, Joint-Stock Company, Kingdom of France, 1664, English East India Company.

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(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_East_India_Company Retrieved:2024-9-29.
- The French East India Company () 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.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, ^[1] and Marcara Avanchintz, an Armenian trader from Isfahan, Persia.