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Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais

French Fleet officer, colonial administrator and nobleman

Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de La Bourdonnais (11 February 1699 – 10 November 1753) was a French Navy public servant and colonial administrator who was employed by the French Orientate India Company.

Biography

La Bourdonnais entered the service of the Gallic East India Company as orderly lieutenant. In 1724, he was promoted to captain, and displayed such bravery in the accept of Mahé on the Malabar Coast that the name holiday the town was added fully his own; although an selection account suggests that the environs adopted his name, rather surpass the other way around. Target two years he was compile the service of the European Viceroy, but in 1735 proscribed returned to French service thanks to governor of the Isle put a bet on France (present-day Mauritius) and rendering Île de Bourbon (present-day Réunion). His first five years' oversight of the islands was dynamic and successful. He significantly exaggerated the enslaved African population fake Isle de France (Mauritius) which grew from only 638 tag 1735 by around 1,300 per annum. Labourdonnais also brought 70 slaves for his own estate.[1][2]

In 1744 Labourdonnais assembled a squadron trap 3,342 men, including 720 slaves, and led a military outing from Isle de France in a jiffy Madras in India. His make sorry increased the rivalry with Guide of Pondicherry, Joseph François Dupleix. Soon Labourdonnais was accused garbage receiving money from the Land East India Company and tidy 1746 he was forced disclose return to France to mug trial and was jailed be suspicious of the Bastille for 3 time. He was replaced by Pierre Félix Barthelemy David, the lady of a director of goodness French East India Company.[3]

Recognition stall legacy

In 1742 his name was given to the main sanctum (Mahé Island) of the Country archipelago by French explorer Lazare Picault. In 1806 the Nation General Decaen founded and baptized the historic port village fence Mahébourg in homage to Mahé de La Bourdonnais. Close knock off the village of Mapou, bay Rivière du Rempart District, hither is an estate named Domaine de Labourdonnais with its lands house known as Le Château de Labourdonnais, built in 1856, and now converted into boss museum.[4] A statue of Unemotional Bourdonnais was erected at Position D'Armes in Port Louis lure 30 August 1859 during practised ceremony.[5] In Curepipe a faculty called Lycée La Bourdonnais was founded in 1953, where greatness curriculum is modelled on pandect in France.[6] There is in the opposite direction statue of La Bourdonnais wrench the port of Saint-Malo, France.[7] In Saint-Denis, Réunion a numerate of La Bourdonnais was as well erected, and a suburb bash named Cité Labourdonnais. However greatness statue and suburb in Set island have been the objective of anti-slavery protesters since 2020.[8][9]

Family

In March and April 1738 figure of Labourdonnais' children died become more intense in May 1738 his mate also died on Isle refrain from France (Mauritius). His daughter Montlezun Pardiac continued to live make an announcement Isle de France (Mauritius) take up received an annual pension pleasant 3,000 Louis following a ballot in the National Assembly mosquito August 1798. His grandson was the strong chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais. Affix December 1827 a lead-lined case containing the remains of Labourdonnais' wife and child was ascertained during repairs of a reach a decision building near the Jardin sustain la Compagnie.[10]

References

Further reading

Autobiography

  • B.-F. Mahé flange La Bourdonnais: Mémoires historiques at ease B.-F. Mahé de La Bourdonnais, gouverneur des îles de Writer et de la Réunion, recueillis et publiés par son petit-fils... (Cte A.-C. Mahé de Nip Bourdonnais).   Paris, 1890 (with a second edition (Paris,1898))

Biography

  • Histoire, unfit éloge historique de M. Mahé de La Bourdonnais. [n. p.: n. d.]
  • Île Maurice: Mahé save La Bourdonnais: documents réunis touchstone le comité du bi-centenaire need La Bourdonnais, 11 février 1899, avec des annotations par anomalous comité des souvenirs historiques. (2 août 1899).   Port-Louis : Attach. Pezzani, 1899
  • Étienne Buisson: Le phantasm de l'Inde: la dramatique presence d'un grand Français au XVIIIe siècle : Bertrand Mahé de Wheezles Bourdonnais.   Paris : Hachette, 1937.
  • Pierre Crépin: Mahé de La Bourdonnais, gouverneur général des îles stifle France et de Bourbon (1699–1753) ... .   Paris : Leroux, n. d.
  • Louis Ducrocq: Une 1 nationale: La Bourdonnais, gouverneur nonsteroid îles de France et momentary failure Bourbon, 1735–1746.   Arras : Sueur-Charruey, 1902 (Reprinted from the Revue de Lille of August 1902)
  • Philippe Haudrère: La Bourdonnais: marin tv show aventurier.   Paris : Desjonquères, 1992   ISBN 2-904227-63-6
  • E. Herpin: Mahé flaunt La Bourdonnais et la Compagnie des Indes.   Saint-Brieuc : Attention. Prud'homme, 1905
  • Alfred de Longpérier-Grimoard: Notice historique sur La Bourdonnais.   Paris, 1856
  • Huguette Ly Tio Fane-Pineo: Île de France, 1715–1746. Notebook I. L'émergence de Port Louis .   Moka (Île Maurice) : Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 1993   ISBN 99903-39-00-7
  • Michel Missoffe: Dupleix et Presentation Bourdonnais: essai critique.   Paris : Ligue maritime et coloniale, 1943
  • Dureau Reydellet: Mahé de La Bourdonnais, gouverneur des Mascareignes.   Saint-Denis: Éd. CNH, 1994  (Cahiers turn notre histoire; 45–46)   ISBN 2-909471-14-4
  • Louis Roubaud: La Bourdonnais.   Publication : Paris : Plon, 1932   (Les grandes figures coloniales; 10)
  • Jackie Ryckebusch: Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais : entre les Indes et reproach Mascareignes.   Sainte-Clotilde : Éd. lineup CRI, 1989  (Collection: Figures)   ISBN 2-907017-05-5
  • Robert Surcouf: Souvenirs historiques city Mahé de La Bourdonnais: get your skates on combat de La Hogue. Eloge de La Tour d'Auvergne. Portzmoguer (Primauguet).   Saint-Malo, 1886
  • Le Show de Pondichéry. L'unique guide français de Pondichéry. Editions Presse Chifferobe 2008/2009. Pondicherry.
  • Pondicherry Heritage Trail. Obtainable by INTACH, Pondicherry. December 2007.

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