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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[...]

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Baie du Cap – Macondé

BY TML Holidays
DATE 29/11/2021

During the early french settlement on the island in 1721 (even though the first claim of possession of the island was in 1715), there wasn’t any interior roads. All communications were done only by sea round the island in either[...]

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Le Morne Brabant

BY TML Holidays
DATE 15/03/2022

Le Morne Cultural Landscape Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as a shelter by runaway slaves, maroons, through the 18th and early years of the[...]