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    Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de La Bourdonnais (11 February 1699 – 10 November 1753) was a French naval officer and colonial administrator, in the service...
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    island was named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France (modern-day Mauritius). Mahé was first visited by the...
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    Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais. He learned chess in 1814 and began to take the game seriously in 1818, regularly playing at the Café de la Régence...
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  • belief that the name of the town was given in honour of Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), whose later fame derived in good part from...
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  • Given name Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699−1753), French naval officer and administrator, namesake of Mahé, Seychelles Mahé Drysdale (born...
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  • La Bourdonnais may refer to: Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), French naval officer Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795–1840)...
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    existed between Dupleix and Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French governor of the Isle of Bourbon (today's La Réunion).[attribution needed]...
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    the East Indies during the war included: Commander, Bertrand-François Mahé, Comte de La Bourdonnais Original Squadron Achille (74 guns, only 70 guns on-ship)...
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    Mauritius between 1721 and 1735, prior to the arrival of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, most of them being Company ships. Slave traders brought...
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    town of the Grand Port District. Mahébourg is named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, one of the most successful governors of the French colonial...
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