French Empire
Early French Endeavours in Global Asia and the Creation of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales (1664)
The French are often described as latecomers in the world of global Asia and its trade during the early modern period. Standard historical accounts tend to posit that it was only with the creation by Colbert in 1664 of the “Compagnie des Indes Orientales” that France began to capture a