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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 See also:FLACOURT (16o7-1660)  , See also:French See also:governor of See also:Madagascar, was See also:born at See also:Orleans in 16o7 . He was named governor of Madagascar by the French See also:East See also:India See also:Company in 1648 . See also:Flacourt restored See also: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 See also:term of See also:office . In 1655 he returned to See also:France . Not See also:long after he was appointed director See also:general of the company; but having again returned to Madagascar, he was drowned on his voyage See also:home on the loth of See also: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 See also:les origines de la colonisation francaise a Madagascar (1648-1661), (See also:Paris, 1898) .

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