A kid showering himself in a street of Pondy.
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A shop on a sidewalk of Rue de la Cathedrale in Pondicherry.
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Pondicherry Street Signs:
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A rickshaw on Rue Saint Louis in Pondicherry.
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A woman begging at the entrance of a little Catholic shrine in Old Pondicherry.
I'll be away for a while, so I wish you all an Happy New Year 2009.
By the way if everybody did a bit for the one in need, it would be a nice start for 2009
A painter doing a huge work on the wall of a shop in a street of Pondicherry, an obvious suppporter of the Congress Party.
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Playing "pétanque" in a graveyard of Pondicherry
A man taking a nap on a very hot afternoon on a sidewalk of a Pondicherry street.
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Milk delivery in a street of Pondicherry
A colorful street of Pondy.
Rue Suffren in Pondy.
Admiral comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren (July 17, 1729 - December 8, 1788) - French admiral; was the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a family of nobles of Provence which claimed to have emigrated from Lucca in the 14th century. He was born in the Château de Saint-Cannat, near Aix-en-Provence in the present département of Bouches-du-Rhône. He was most famous for his campaign in the Indian Ocean, in which he successfully contended for supremacy against the established British power there, led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.
A rickshaw driver taking a rest on Rue Dumas in beautiful Pondicherry
Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668 - 1745) was the French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais on the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas hailed from Southern France. There is still a street in Pondicherry named after him.
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a sweeper on Rue Dumas. Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668 - 1745) was the French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais on the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas hailed from Southern France. There is still a street in Pondicherry named after him.
The French East India Company (French: La Compagnie française des Indes orientales or Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies.
Planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Director General for the Company was François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including 20 years in Japan
A rickwhaw crossing Rue de Bussy in lovely Pondy.
Charles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau was the French Governor General between (1783–1785), born in 1718, died in 1785 for Pondichéry. He was used with distinction under Joseph François Dupleix in the Indies; contributed to make raise to British the seat of Pondichéry in 1748, and was named in 1782 ordering armies of land and sea beyond Cape of Good Hope. He concerted his operations with Pierre André de Suffren and fought with advantage against an extremely higher enemy in a number.
Jogging on Rue Dumas in Pondy.
A man installed his repair shop on a sidewalk of Rue Labourdonnais in Pondicherry.
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Mahé de La Bourdonnai, naval officer. He entered the service of the French India Company and in 1724 distinguished himself in the capture of Mahé . Governor of Île de France and Île de Bourbon (later Mauritius and Réunion; 1735–46), he was placed (1740) in command of the French fleet in India. He relieved Mahé (1741), and after the outbreak of hostilities with Great Britain captured (1746) Madras, but he quarreled with Joseph François Dupleix and was removed (1746) from his governorship. On his return to France he was imprisoned (1748) in the Bastille on charges of poor administration and embezzlement. In 1751 he was tried and acquitted, largely through pressure of popular opinion.
André Julien, Comte Dupuy, was Governor General of French India between 1816 and 1825.e was Governor General of Pondicherry between September 1816 to October 1825. After Treaty of Paris (1814), Pondicherry and its territories were returned to French by British for the third and last time. Then Comte Dupuy was made Governor General of it. Today we can find a street named upon him (Rue Comte Dupuy) in Pondicherry.
François Martin, 1681 – November 1693.
On February 4th, 1673, Bellanger, a French officer, took up residence in the Danish Lodge in Puducherry and the French Period of Puducherry began. In 1674 Francois Martin, the first Governor, started to build Puducherry and transformed it from a small fishing village into a flourishing port-town. The French were in constant conflict, in India, with the Dutch and the English. In 1693 the Dutch took over and fortified the town considerably. The French regained Puducherry in 1699 through the Treaty of Ryswick signed on September 20, 1697.
"Rue de la Compagnie", a street in Pondicherry named after the "Compagnie des Indes" based in Lorient, Brittany. A man in hos classy Ambassador looking at me.
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The French East India Company (French: La Compagnie française des Indes orientales or Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies.
Planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Director General for the Company was François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including 20 years in Japan.
A rickshaw driver taking a rest on Rue Dumas in beautiful Pondicherry
Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668 - 1745) was the French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais on the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas hailed from Southern France. There is still a street in Pondicherry named after him.
Young students of Baratha Nathyam training on a saturday morning in a school of Pondicherry
In a street of Pondicherry..
Making Coffee inside the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry
A little kid under his mosquito net while her mother watches him..
A rickshaw driver taking a rest and a man having his lunch break on the sidewalk in Pondicherry
Selling veggies alongside the beach in Pondicherry.
A waiter with Masala Dosa in the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry
A wall of thee "Alliance française" in Pondichéry
A cook doing Vegetable cutlets inside the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry
A street with the cathedral in the background.
A tempo zooming by, "Quai d'Ambour".
Watching the Indian Ocean, on the Coromandel coast in Pondicherry
Streets in Pondicherry are very nice, almost always colorful, thanks to the vegetation.
A traditional Tamil House
During the school break, mothers come to feed their child in front of the school in the white city of Pondicherry
At the entrance of the "Patricia guest house"
A rickshaw waiting near the "Cluny" convent in the white city.
