Compagnie des Indes

Compagnie des Indes (Template:Lit) may refer to several French chartered companies involved in long-distance trading:

First French East Indies Company, in existence from 1604 to 1614
French West India Company, active in the Western Hemisphere from 1664 to 1674
Louis XIV's East India Company also established in 1664, merged into Law's Company in 1719
John Law's Company, established in 1717 as Compagnie d'Occident and rebranded as Compagnie des Indes in 1719, placed into government receivership in April 1721
French Indies Company, created in 1723 from the reorganization of the non-monetary operations of Law's Company, liquidated in 1770
Compagnie de Calonne, established in 1785 and liquidated in 1794

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