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At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were trading with India established warehouses in Port-Louis. They later built additional warehouses across the bay in 1628, at the location which became known as "L'Orient" (the Orient in French). In 1664, during the reign of King Louis XIV, the French East India Company was established at ...
1721 - French in power on Isle de France; Noord-Wester Haven (harbor) renamed "Port Louis." [2] 1729 - Hôtel du Gouvernement built. [3] 1735 - Development of Port Louis begins (approximate date). [4] 1749 - Le Réduit (fort) built near Port Louis at Moka. 1772 - Bagne Prison built. [5]
This includes the Port Louis team, named the Association Sportive Port-Louis 2000 (AS Port-Louis 2000), which won the national championship in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2011. Another popular sports activity in Port Louis is the Thoroughbred horse races held at the Champ de Mars Racecourse , which is the second oldest horse race track in the world.
Citadel of Port-Louis. Alain Manesson Mallet : Les travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la Guerre . The Citadel of Port-Louis is a citadel built in the 16th century by the Spaniards, then modified in the 17th century by the Frenchmen in Port-Louis (France) .
Isle de France (Modern French: Île de France, pronounced [il də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ) was a French colony in the Indian Ocean from 1715 to 1810, comprising the island now known as Mauritius and its dependent territories. It was governed by the French East India Company and formed part of the French colonial empire.
In June 1666, Louis XIV issued a decree granting the Compagnie land in Port-Louis, as well as on the other side of the harbor at Le Faouédic. [n 1] In August 1666, one of the company's directors, Denis Langlois, bought land at the end of the harbor, at the confluence of the Scorff and Blavet rivers, and had slipways built. At first, the site ...
As a further honorific gesture to Louis Philippe and his Orléanist branch of the Bourbons, the ship on which the settlers sailed to found the eponymous colony of Port Louis Philippe was named the Comte de Paris after Louis Philippe's beloved infant grandson, Prince Philippe d'Orléans, Count of Paris who was born on 24 August 1838.
Lorient in the 18th century. In 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded the French East Indies Company. [3] In June 1666, an ordinance of Louis XIV granted lands of Port-Louis to the company, along with Faouédic on the other side of the roadstead.