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ETIENNE DE FLACOURT (16o7-1660)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 454 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETIENNE DE
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FLACOURT (16o7-1660)  ,
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French
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governor of
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Madagascar, was
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born at
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Orleans in 16o7 . He was named governor of Madagascar by the French
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East
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India
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Company in 1648 .
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Flacourt restored
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order among the French soldiers, who had mutinied, but in his dealings with the natives he was less successful, and their intrigues and attacks kept him in continual harassment during all his
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term of
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office . In 1655 he returned to
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France . Not
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long after he was appointed director
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general of the company; but having again returned to Madagascar, he was drowned on his voyage
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home on the loth of
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June 166o . He is the author of a Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar (1st edition 1658, 2nd edition 1661) . See A . Malotet, Et. de Flacourt, ou
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les origines de la colonisation francaise a Madagascar (1648-1661), (
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Paris, 1898) .

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