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French East India Company
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The founding charter, signed on August 27, 1664, granted the Company a 50-year monopoly on all French trade east of the Cape of Good Hope, excluding the lucrative Levant trade route [2]. Capital was raised through state subscription and enforced subscription from Parisian financiers, leading to an initial capitalization of 15 million livres tournois. The Company suffered from immediate operational inefficiencies, largely due to a flawed early strategy emphasizing the mass importa…