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== External links == | == External links == | ||
Jean-Claude Féray has compiled an excellent series of webpages on French genealogy in Pondicherry. The site is in French, but the lists of names will be comprehensible to non-French-speakers. Here are some of them: | *Jean-Claude Féray has compiled an excellent series of webpages on French genealogy in Pondicherry. The site is in French, but the lists of names will be comprehensible to non-French-speakers. Here are some of them: | ||
**[http://pondichery.ifrance.com/index.html ''History of Pondicherry''] | |||
*[http://pondichery.ifrance.com/index.html ''History of Pondicherry''] | **[http://www.ifrance.com/pondichery/adresses.html'' Useful addresses for family history in Pondicherry''] | ||
*[http://www.ifrance.com/pondichery/adresses.html'' Useful addresses for family history in Pondicherry''] | **[http://www.ifrance.com/pondichery/electeurs.html ''List of voters in Pondicherry 1792''] | ||
*[http://www.ifrance.com/pondichery/electeurs.html ''List of voters in Pondicherry 1792''] | **[http://www.ifrance.com/pondichery/Patro-recens.html''Census of Pondicherry 1797''] | ||
*[http://www.ifrance.com/pondichery/Patro-recens.html''Census of Pondicherry 1797''] | |||
*[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-03/1172865924 This India List post] says that the Pondicherry archives are in the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM) in the city of Aix en Provence, France | *[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-03/1172865924 This India List post] says that the Pondicherry archives are in the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM) in the city of Aix en Provence, France | ||
*[http://www.confluence.org.uk/2008/12/10/pondicherry-%E2%80%93-a-bit-of-france-in-india "Pondicherry – A bit of France in India"] by Sunayana Panda confluence.org.uk | |||
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Revision as of 12:20, 12 July 2010
| Pondicherry | |
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| Presidency: Madras | |
| Coordinates: | 11.845116°N 79.875241°E |
| Altitude: | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Puducherry |
| State/Province: | Indian Union Territory of Puducherry |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| Pondicherry Railway | |
Pondicherry was formerly a French colony founded by Francois Martin in 1674.
History
- Siege of Pondicherry 1748
- Capture of Pondicherry 1761
- Battle of Pondicherry 1778
- Battle of Pondicherry 1793
External links
- Jean-Claude Féray has compiled an excellent series of webpages on French genealogy in Pondicherry. The site is in French, but the lists of names will be comprehensible to non-French-speakers. Here are some of them:
- This India List post says that the Pondicherry archives are in the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM) in the city of Aix en Provence, France
- "Pondicherry – A bit of France in India" by Sunayana Panda confluence.org.uk