🔆FRENCH
✅French east India Company was formed in 1664 establishing their 1st factory at Surat → by Francis Caron
✅Francis Martin founded Pondicherry in 1673 & became 1st governor of Pondicherry. Henceforth Pondicherry became headquarter of French possessions in India.
✅ In beginning of 18th century, English & French were competing for their supremacy in India, Mainly in carnatic & Bengal region.
✅ After 3 Carnatic wars, finally French were crushed & limited to Pondicherry
✅ First Carnatic war (1740-48) → extension of rivalry, ended in 1748 by treaty of Aix-La Chapelle
✅Second Carnatic War (1749-54) → inconclusive, undermined the French and English power in south India
✅Third Carnatic War (1758-63) → decisive war, treaty of Paris (1763)
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