Compagnie de Chine

The Compagnie de Chine was a French trading company established in 1660 by the Catholic society Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, in order to dispatch missionaries to Asia (initially Bishops François Pallu, Pierre Lambert de la Motte and Ignace Cotolendi of the newly founded Paris Foreign Missions Society).[1] The company was modelled on the Dutch East India Company.[2]

A ship was built in the Netherlands by the shipowner Fermanel, but the ship foundered soon after being launched.[3] The only remaining solution for the missionaries was to travel on land, since Portugal would have refused to take non-Padroado missionaries by ship, and the Dutch and the English refused to take Catholic missionaries.[4]

In 1664, the China Company would be fused by Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the Compagnie d'Orient and Compagnie de Madagascar into the Compagnie des Indes Orientales.[5]

A second Compagnie de Chine was established in 1698.[6]

The Compagnie de Chine was reactivated in 1723.[7]

See also

Notes
  1. Mantienne, p.28
  2. Asia in the Making of Europe, p.232
  3. Mantienne, p.28
  4. Missions, p.4
  5. In 1642, Rigault, captain of the navy, founded with nine partners the "Compagnie Françoise de l'Orient" "Les compagnies de commerce et Madagascar". Retrieved 2020-11-30.
  6. The French Image of China Before and After Voltaire - Page 155 by Basil Guy
  7. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century by Theodore Besterman, p.56

References
  • Mantienne, Frédéric 1999 Monseigneur Pigneau de Béhaine Eglises d'Asie, Série Histoire, ISSN 1275-6865 ISBN 2-914402-20-1
  • Missions étrangères de Paris. 350 ans au service du Christ 2008 Editeurs Malesherbes Publications, Paris ISBN 978-2-916828-10-7
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