was the most important and prosperous French settlement in India.
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In 1674 the French East India Company set up a trading centre at Pondicherry. This outpost eventually became the chief French settlement in India. Dutch and British trading companies also wanted trade with India.
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Pondicherry was the most important and prosperous French settlement in India.
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- The 17th century saw France participate in the East India trade as the last of the major European naval powers.
- The southeast coast of India's Puducherry city has no recorded history that dates back to antiquity.
- Only with the arrival of colonial powers like the Dutch, Portuguese, English, and French is Puducherry's history fully chronicled.
- In Pondicherry, the French East India Company founded a commercial hub in 1674.
- Later, this colony rose to prominence as the most important French presence in India.
- During the Siege of Pondicherry in 1793, which was part of the French Revolutionary Wars, the British reclaimed control of the region; they later returned it to France in 1814.
- When they took over the country in the late 1850s, the British allowed the French to preserve their colony in India.
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