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Mahé de La Bourdonnais
Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais was a French naval officer who governed Isle de France and Île Bourbon for the French East India Company from 1735 to 1746. He built Port Louis as a capital and naval base and developed plantations worked by enslaved people. In 1746 he captured Madras from the British, but a quarrel with Dupleix over its ransom led to his imprisonment in the Bastille.
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