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Port Louis – The Harbour and Shipyards

BY TML Holidays
DATE 29/11/2021

Converting the primitive harbour that the first French settlers knew into a civilized port, was no mean achievement for Mahé de La Bourdonnais. That metamorphosis was the result of the joint efforts of European sailors, Lascar[...]

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Port Louis – Viewed from the Signal Mountain – 1899

BY TML Holidays
DATE 15/03/2022

Port Louis was already in use as a harbor in 1638. On the 20th September 1715, Guillaume Dufresne d’Arsel took possession of the island in the name of the King of France. A first batch of 16 Frenchmen and some slaves under the[...]