French India
Americannoun
noun
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She is born in Pondicherry, in French India.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
This "Ezourveidam" was lastly translated by a Brahmin, correspondent of the unfortunate French India Company.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
Messrs. Law and Chevalier, governors in French India, determined to send a vessel at their own risk to trade in the southern seas.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
In this way the loss of French India and French America, things of the old monarchy, were to be compensated.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
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