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3 Céline Cousquer, Nantes: Une capitale française des Indiennes au XVIIIe siècle (Nantes: Coiffard Editions, 2002), 17.
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5 See for example Factory Records, Dacca, 1779, Record Group G 15, col. 21 (1779), in Oriental