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14 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifp.3411
- isbn: 9788184701678
- eisbn: 9791036549892
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Edouard Glissant, « Preface », Institut Français de Pondichéry, ID : 10.4000/books.ifp.3411
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This rather uncommon term is used to designate those territories occupied by France within the immensity of India whilst it was still a British colony. These exiguous territories, distant from one another, were always grouped together as Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Yanaon, Karikal and Mahé, giving the impression of a single body of land or, rather, of a fairly integrated archipelago. Comptoirs also implied that French occupation was specific and comparable to the establishments sown around the ...