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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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The Soulliac Marine Cemetry.

BY TML Holidays
DATE 29/11/2021

The Souillac Marine Cemetery… or Marine Graveyard exists since the early 1770s approximately, since the early inhabitants of the region as from 1767 and of course, the French Colonial Era. The Graveyard is quite famous for,[...]

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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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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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Times of Mahe de La Bourdonnais: Donjon St. Louis

BY TML Holidays
DATE 29/11/2021

When we read about the history of Mauritius, especially the City of Port Louis, we will learn a lot about how the island was discovered and how it progressed since, and this progress isn’t stopping yet. During the French[...]