Etienne Regnault was the first governor of
Réunion
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. He arrived on the island on 10 July 1665 on the ship Taureau with a group of 20 settlers sent by the
French East India Company Compagnie des Indes () may refer to several French chartered companies involved in long-distance trading:
* First French East Indies Company, in existence from 1604 to 1614
* French West India Company, active in the Western Hemisphere from 1664 t ...
.
[van den Boogaerde, Pierre]
Shipwrecks of Madagascar
pg. 121 He founded the towns of
Sainte-Suzanne and
Saint-Denis and served as governor of the colony until 1671, after which he was succeeded by
Jacques de la Heure. Regnault continued his service to the East India Company in
Surat
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and
Pondicherry
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, until his death in 1688 in
Bengal
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.
References
Tourism Office of Saint-Paul (Reunion) retrieved 2011-10-11
retrieved 2011-10-11
Governors of Réunion
1688 deaths
French East India Company
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