Mauritius—île de France—is controlled by officials appointed…
1804 CE to 1815 CE
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre had lived on the island from 1768 to 1771, then returned to France, where he wrote Paul et Virginie, a love story, which has made the île de France famous wherever the French language is spoken.
Two famous French governors are the Vicomte de Souillac (who had constructed the Chaussée in Port Louis and encouraged farmers to settle in the district of Savanne), and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (who had seen to it to it that the French in the Indian Ocean should have their headquarters in Mauritius instead of Pondicherry in India).
Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, who had been a successful general in the French Revolutionary Wars and, in some ways, a rival of Napoleon, rules as Governor of Isle de France and Réunion from 1803 to 1810.
British naval cartographer and explorer Matthew Flinders is arrested and detained by General Decaen on the island, in contravention of an order from Napoléon.
During the Napoleonic Wars, Mauritius becomes a base from which French corsairs organize successful raids on British commercial ships.
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